"anton" wrote
Alan Holmes wrote in message ...
During the floods of last week, Thames water sewage plants
couldn't
cope...and the backlog of untreated sewage filled the pipes,
until it
burst up and out of the drains... right into our back garden.

snip

But when it dries out it will no longer be 'raw sewage'.

And the spores of which organisms will stillbe viable?
Anton

Could not resist looking for info on the web and found the following :

The Global Ideas Bank http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-339.HTML
has fascinating info about a UK project to turn human sewage into
fertilizer :~)

And http://members.aol.com/wwanglia/framesf.htm has a whole site
devoted to the subject of "How Safe is Food from Human Sewage?"

It seems as if the UK is already supplying s**t to farmers..........
Jenny