The Last Taboo
eBook - ePub

The Last Taboo

Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Last Taboo

Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

About this book

Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk aboutwater-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don't mention the shit.

A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to aGreat Stink thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere.

In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International Year of Sanitation, the authors bring this awkward subject to a wider audience than the world of international filth usually commands. They seek the elimination of theGreat Distaste so that people without political clout or economic muscle can claim their right to a dignified and hygienic place togo.

Published with UNICEF

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures and tables
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of acronyms and abbreviations
  10. 1 A Short History of the Unmentionable
  11. 2 Runaway Urbanization and the Rediscovery of Filth
  12. 3 In Dignity and Health
  13. 4 Pit Stops: The Expanding Technological Menu
  14. 5 Selling Sanitation to New Users
  15. 6 Shitty Livelihoods, or What?
  16. 7 Bringing on the New Sanitary Revolution
  17. Notes
  18. Index