Three workers and a passerby who jumped in to help them have died of suffocation after inhaling toxic gases in a septic tank in Odisha.

UMERKOTE: Four persons died of suffocation after they got trapped in an under-construction septic tank in Nabarangpur district’s Nandahandi block on Tuesday morning.

Lawmakers have proposed restrictions on the future construction and use of septic tanks in some parts of northern Guam to protect the island’s northern aquifer.

More than half of 1,400 domestic septic tanks inspected by local authorities last year failed to meet the required standard.

In all, 56% of septic tanks failed their inspections, and the EPA said it is critically important that households maintain their septic tanks given the risks from such failures.

Local authorities completed 1,390 septic tank inspections in 2024, targeted near rivers and household drinking water wells which are most at risk of contamination by faulty septic tanks.

The EPA report found 82 per cent of septic tanks that failed during 2013-2024 were fixed, up from 75 per cent at the end of 2021. This has been aided by increased uptake in grants.

New Delhi: A 56-year-old man died after falling into a septic tank that collapsed at his home in Prem Nagar on Sunday morning, police said.

Pasco County 'I'm sick': Full septic tank drain fields plague new Pasco County homeowners Emails show the county rebuffed plans to connect to the public sewer.

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