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An edition of The big necessity: the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters (2008)

The big necessity

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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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Cross-Cultural Comparison, Feces, Health aspects, Health aspects of Sanitation, Hygiene, Sanitation, Sewage, Socioeconomic Factors, Toilet facilities, Toilets, Traitement des déchets, Avfallshantering, Toaletter, Hälsoaspekter, Services de voirie, Renhållning, Toilet Facilities, Biogaz, Santé publique, Aspects socio-économiques, Social aspects, Exkrementer, Sewage disposal, Sociological aspects, Excretion, Political aspects, New York Times reviewed

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.72
Library of Congress
RA567 .G46 2008

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Pagination
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OL21836618M
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0805082719
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2008029999
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