The Basin contains 46 sewered communities with a connected population of approximately 337,000 discharging wastes to the ocean, land disposal systems, dry watercourses, or to surface streams. Known industrial wastes with a population equivalent of 360,000, discharged to the Orange County Joint Outfall Sewer, increase this total to 697,000. Community waste treatment facilities serving the 46 sewered communities reduce the population equivalent of the combined domestic and industrial wastes from 697,000 to approximately 360,000. Of this total, 324,000 is discharged to tidal waters or directly to the ocean and 28,000 is discharged to land.