Tag: hygiene
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Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design
Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known but our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disaster For centuries, the people of London and other big cities got their cooking and washing water from rivers or wells, limiting their consumption to pretty much what they could carry. They dumped their waste into brick-lined cesspits…
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How a Yemen Water Plant Helped Cut Cholera by 92 Percent
Why you should care: Because cholera has had a devastating effect on the conflict-ravaged country and can be used as a tool of war. For nearly four years, Yemen, one of the Arab world’s poorest countries, has been ravaged by war. With on-the-ground reporting still difficult, the death toll from fighting and bombing — currently…
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The world needs more toilets – but not ones that flush
The invention of the flush toilet was probably one of the most unsustainable innovations in human history The invention of flush toilets increased the volume of waste from toilet by almost 20-fold (Credit: iStock) Today, 35.8% of the world’s population still lacks access to any proper sanitation facilities. That’s why in 2015, the world’s leaders…