The big necessity : the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters / Rose George.
2008
RA567 .G46 2008 (Mapit)
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The big necessity : the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters / Rose George.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805082715
0805082719
0805082719
Publication Details
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008.
Language
English
Description
288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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RA567 .G46 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.72
Summary
Human waste is a major public health threat: population growth is taxing even the most advanced sewage systems, and the disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, 1.95 million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. The Big Necessity takes aim at the taboo, revealing everything that matters about how people do--and don't--deal with their own waste. George also explores the infrastructure disasters waiting to happen and the potential saviors: from China's five million biogas digesters to the U.S. Army's personal lasers used by soldiers to zap their feces in the field.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
In the sewers
Japan's toilet revolution
2.6 billion
Going to the sulabh
China's biogas boom
A public necessity
The battle of biosolids
Open-defecation-free India
In the cities.
Japan's toilet revolution
2.6 billion
Going to the sulabh
China's biogas boom
A public necessity
The battle of biosolids
Open-defecation-free India
In the cities.