Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PART 1: THE HISTORY OF HUMAN WASTE
Chapter 1: How I Learned to Love the Excrement
Chapter 2: Th e Early History of Human Excreta
Chapter 3: Treasure Night Soil as if It Were Gold!
Chapter 4: Th e Water Closet Dilemma and the Sewage Farm Paradigm
Chapter 5: Germs, Fertilizer, and the Poop Police
PART 2: THE PRESENT: A SLUDGE REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS
Chapter 6: Th e Great Sewage Time Bomb and the Redistribution of Nutrients on the Planet
Chapter 7: Loowatt, a Loo Th at Turns Waste into Watts
Chapter 8: Th e Crap Th at Cooks Your Dinner and Container- Based Sanitation
Chapter 9: HomeBiogas: Your Personal Digester in a Box
Chapter 10: Made in New York
Chapter 11: Lystek, the Home of Sewage Smoothies
Chapter 12: How DC Water Makes Biosolids BLOOM
Chapter 13: From Biosolids to Biofuels
PART 3: THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE AND OTHER THINGS
Chapter 14: Poop: Th e Best (and Cheapest) Medicine
Chapter 15: Looking Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
Chapter 16: From the Kindness of One's Gut: An Insider Look into Stool Banks
Afterword: Breathing Poetry into Poop
Notes
Index