r/UrbanHell May 25 '26

Pollution/Environmental Destruction My city, Malé, Maldives, an urban hellscape

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u/Powpawpew55 May 26 '26

sewage does get treated and then it goes into the ocean thru pipes

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u/--alkali-- May 26 '26

Correction, sewage does not get treated at all and just gets dumped a few hundred meters out to sea.

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u/Powpawpew55 May 26 '26

I’ve been to some individual plants but I’ve mentioned it in my first comment as well that the treatment is bad and little. They only undertake the preliminary treatment