How is sewage spill hazardous

Sewage can include raw sewage, black water, sludge or septic tank waste. It consists of biological waste, excrement, industrial effluents, debris and biohazardous trash. Sewage spills occur when the conduit of this wastewater undergoes a breakdown in the form of a broken pipe, manhole or overflowing. 

Sewage spills cause health hazards, damage homes and businesses and threaten the ecology. Humans are at a greater risk for getting affected due to the presence of various pathogens that can have a serious impact on human health. 

Sewage water can cause a wide range of fungal, bacterial and viral hazards in buildings. They are transmitted to other surrounding areas by movement of people from contaminated areas, tracking contaminated soil, movement of particles and infected particles through the medium of air. 

The following diseases are likely to be caused through a sewage spill:

• Tetanus – The bacteria enters the body through wounds and affects the nervous system, hindering the interaction between the nervous system and the respective muscle, especially at the neuromuscular junction.

• Hepatitis A – It is a viral disease affecting the liver system, which can cause mild to severe illness. Treatment can take weeks.

• Leptospirosis – A bacterial disease that can affect the kidney, liver and is responsible for respiratory diseases. Gastrointestinal infections like vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea. 

• Infections by Cryptosporidium & Giardia – Cryptosporidium stick to the walls of the small intestine and cause watery diarrhoea, whereas Giardia causes abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea and bouts of watery diarrhoea.

Exposure to these diseases caused by harmful pathogens occur when people come in contact with the sewage spill during eating, drinking, skin contact, handling sharps and contaminated gloves. It is essential to get the sewage spill cleared, before it is too late and takes toll on our health. 

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20 Common Thoughts Inside a Hoarder’s Mind

Hoarding is not a mere accumulation of useless junk. 

It involves many thought processes with the decision to discard. These thought processes impinge on the hoarder’s decision-making process which ultimately results in the item not being discarded. 

Following are some common thoughts what a hoarder is likely to think.

1. “I’ll throw this away later…”
2. “I might need this at a future time…”
3. “I do not know where to store this. It doesn’t belong anywhere.”
4. “I have a feeling that I will clean up soon and that is when I will need some items I have collected.”
5. “This item might be valuable in the future and if I discard it, I will be at a loss.”
6. “I need to prepare myself for the next Great Depression!”
7. “These things offer me a sense of comfort. I am inaccessible to anyone. No one would dare come close to the pile, leave alone me. Hence I am protected.”
8. “These items are actually gifts from someone close. How can I even think of discarding them?”
9. “This reminds me of my lost loved one…it is perhaps the last piece of interaction I have between us two”
10. “My loved one, whom I lost years ago, liked these items. I believe s/he will come someday to collect it.”
11. “I collect these things so that I can possibly gift them to someone later.”
12. “I might be financially deprived to afford these items. Hence, I need to save them, even if they are small things like wrapping paper or ribbons.”
13. “I need to keep this item so that I remember something which I am likely to forget at a future date.”
14. “I feel relieved when I discard my stuff. However, once it’s done, I feel suddenly exposed. They are my safety pile.”
15. “Survival is about being prepared. Hence, I need to collect these items. I need to rely on myself and not on anybody”
16. “People can walk out of your lives. Things don’t.”
17. “Discarding these items makes me feel guilty about discarding it. Like it’s a criminal thing to do.”
18. “Right now, I do not have the time at my disposal to sort through these things. I will keep them here, so I can go through them, another day.”
19. “It gives me an excuse to get out of social obligation. I can always say I can’t go to a party because I have so much cleaning to do.”
20. “I believe in recycle and reuse.”

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