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Gusdai t1_iur6c53 wrote

Reply to comment by Roxerz in Oregon Trail with new dysentery mechanics by shot_collar

It's a matter of numbers.

One human sh*tting on the beach is fine. A whole village and it's not. Villages all along the coast doing it, that's an issue.

Animals don't usually live in the same numbers as humans; for animals living in large colonies I don't know how they avoid diseases. Maybe they don't, and their young ones dying of diarrhea is common?

For the story, New York City used to dump raw sewage out at sea, through a long pipe. It caused issues, so they tried to dump further at sea (for more dilution), but it never solved the issue, so they ended up treating their sewage instead, like a normal city.

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Jamessuperfun t1_iur26n6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Oregon Trail with new dysentery mechanics by shot_collar

>I thought the money would be better spent on plumbing, or to train local plumbers, but I guess that takes more time to payoff

Probably also a dramatic difference in the scale of the cost. Putting up some posters is much cheaper than building out infrastructure, and you still need people to decide to use it once built.

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