In Lima, OH, there's a refinery called Premcor (it used to be BP).

In their visitor's lobby, they had a fish tank with blue gill and LMB. While I was waiting for my meeting to happen, I dug a few worms from the dirt outside the lobby and dropped them in the tank; both the blue gill and the LMB were eating them.

The refinery was trying to make a point that the water they were taking and using from the local river was actually cleaner (due to their environmental controls) when they discharged it back into the river.


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."