71.   Treated waste water and occasional storm water sustain the year-round flows.

72.   Treated waste water from the mine would drain into the trout-filled Clark Fork River and across the Idaho border into Lake Pend Oreille.

73.   Ultimately, Krause said, economics, including the phasing out of federal construction grants for local waste water treatment, may force Americans to consider the alternatives.

74.   Two independent pilots who help ship captains navigate the passage said in interviews that they were often asked to take ships to the areas to pump waste water overboard.

75.   We apparently have little choice about the way the waste water exits.

76.   When chlorine combines with organic matter from the wood, it creates many compounds that pollute waste waters.

77.   Where once children bathed at home, crumbling infrastructure now leaves them to splash in the waste water still pumped out of the mothballed mine shafts.

78.   Yet there have been violations over the years, they added, because hazardous materials were mixed with the waste water and dumped.

79.   Primarily, IWK treats waste water from the toilet, kitchen, bathroom, etc.