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The big necessity : the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters
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The big necessity : the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters

著者: Rose George
出版商: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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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  再读一些...
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所有的著者/提供者: Rose George
ISBN: 9780805082715 0805082719
OCLC号码: 234213749
描述: 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: 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.
责任: Rose George.
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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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Informative and Entertaining - Highly Recommended

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I picked this book up without having heard about it previously and found it hard to pull myself away from the engaging stories and fascinating facts. The author is not trying to give a complete guide to toilets of the world or to give a simple history of sanitary practices, instead she pulls out the...
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