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This is such a live issue for us in our UK coastal towns, where dumping of raw sewage and privatised water companies' greed sit with politicians' complicity. Shout out to Surfers Against Sewage, who got the ball rolling on public action. Holler in joy at Sussex Seabed Rewilding for patient kelp sowing and for persevering for years as a one-man effort before the rest of us got in board. Your story is beautiful and I'm sharing widely among my coastal co- residents. Btw, you could submit something to the academic journal of Sociological Fiction if you felt like it? Your piece is spot on that space.

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Thank you for reading and the kind words. I really do find it incredulous that there isn't more political concern for water. And the more I learn about it, the crazier I feel because it seems so obvious something should be done (doing something on this feeling for another of my water stories). Good to hear there are organizations in the UK working on it.

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Oof. Great and frightening read.

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Wow!! And I've been saying for years, it's not the temperature of the planet but the fresh water supply that's the problem. Thanks for this.

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Horrible (circumstances) and awesome (writing). Ray, this was creepy awful but I kept reading. That's quite a feat to keep me interested enough to read much of anything to the end!

Victoria BC does not filter their sewage; they just dump (pun sort of intended) it into the ocean. Maybe that's why my grandfather could catch such enormous salmon (in the strait between Washington state and Victoria). Very, very good salmon. I was a kid and I'm glad I didn't know about it. I am glad I know about it now and don't live anywhere near there!

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Thank you! I'm surprised to hear that Canada does that. I guess no matter where you go in the world these days, you're gonna take a lot of shit.

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Especially in the Strait of Juan de Fuca! Victoria is in BC and they do their own particular weird crap. I think of BC as their version of CA, OR & WA. Canada probably does all kinds of stuff; they just don't tell anyone. They've had to back off the assisted suicides for the mentally ill because doctors are refusing to do it.

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Canada's that fake-nice neighbor next door.

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They're the nation version of frenemies. Princess Twinkletoes (Turdeau) is the frenemy of the whole world. He reminds me of one of the songs in Westside Story: "I Feel Pretty". I know logically they aren't my next door neighbors anymore, but except for their government being extremely assholian, they are my neighbors - they just moved to another neighborhood.

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