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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Sewage isn't something that we usually think about, but we should. This book covers all things toilet-related from weaknesses in US infrastructure to the lack of facilities in the developing world to fancy Japanese toilets. It's entertaining and thought-provoking. ( ) Adult nonfiction. George pursues the problem of human waste and sanitation with all of the curiosity and zeal of Mary Roach, but also makes it clear that this is a very serious problem (that unfortunately no one likes to talk about). "There is nothing funny," she writes, about 2.6 billion people being without sanitation--no toilet, no pit, no nothing. As a typical Westerner ( I think) I had never thought about dirty latrines, or even "bush squatting" as anything more than a nasty inconvenience of traveling in developing countries. But George points out the great hazards to human health posed by ...poop. While the tone is often humorous, the subject is serious, and George provides an easy to read, interesting overview of the problems of human waste and safe drinking water. She visits India, China and Tanzania, among other places, to describe and analyze a variety of attempted solutions. The general conclusion of the book seems to be that this is a problem we can't afford to ignore, but that may have differing solutions in different places. Our Western solution (which is currently seen as the "gold standard") of washing waste away by mixing it with clean drinking water, seems wasteful to me after reading about the variety of other options being explored. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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