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Too good to waste: spring webinars tout the wisdom of recycling human nutrients
1. Toilet Rewind. Monday, April 27th, 12-1 pm PST, 3-4 pm EST Get ready to peek into the fascinating and little-known past when city dwellers kept their local waters clean by recycling and reusing poop. We’ll visit sand toilets of ancient Egypt, earthen-plaster toilets of the Mali empire, nutrient recycling systems of the Aztec’s lake-side…
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Top 5 reasons why The Sewage Question still stands (A book review)
“It need hardly be stated that the removal of human excrements out of cities and towns has always been a question of the highest importance, both from considerations of public health and national economy.” Nineteenth century engineer Frederick Krepp had a lot to say about sewage. In 1867, when he published The Sewage Question (Longmans,…
