I really don't know. I didn't feel guilty when I peed in the river from our boat. When I'm at the beach on the river and have to pee I go in hte river just to pee.
When I was about ten years old and I started fishing in the Atlantic Ocean on party boats (70' to 90' boats carrying about 60 to 70 people and had bathrooms) I thought the toilets on boats flushed in the water, since that was the only place to flush to that made sense to me at the time. I was thinking if the toilets flushed into the water it would pollute it. Maybe that is why you felt guilty about using the bathroom on the older ferry. I fished on those boats and used the bathrooms for years. Not one time out of all the eight hour trips I went on did I see toilet paper in the water. I think either they store the effluent in a tank they pump out at a pump-out station at the marina or they treat the effluent before dumping it in the water. Since I was eating the fish I caught I hope they were not dumping the effluent untreated.
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When I was about ten years old and I started fishing in the Atlantic Ocean on party boats (70' to 90' boats carrying about 60 to 70 people and had bathrooms) I thought the toilets on boats flushed in the water, since that was the only place to flush to that made sense to me at the time. I was thinking if the toilets flushed into the water it would pollute it. Maybe that is why you felt guilty about using the bathroom on the older ferry. I fished on those boats and used the bathrooms for years. Not one time out of all the eight hour trips I went on did I see toilet paper in the water. I think either they store the effluent in a tank they pump out at a pump-out station at the marina or they treat the effluent before dumping it in the water. Since I was eating the fish I caught I hope they were not dumping the effluent untreated.