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LEADER: 03228cam 2200541 a 4500
001 ocn232714594
003 OCoLC
005 20201203041311.0
008 080528s2008 enka b 001 0 eng
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100 1 $aGeorge, Rose,$d1969-
245 14 $aThe big necessity :$badventures in the world of human waste /$cRose George.
260 $aLondon :$bPortobello Books,$c2008.
300 $a326 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIn the sewers : the art of drainage -- The robo-toilet revolution : the actress and the gorilla -- 2.6 billion : '-- and sanitation' -- Going to the sulabh : spade, black, dung, horse -- China's biogas boom : a pig in every bedroom -- A public necessity : frightening the horses -- The battle of biosolids : bad smell, big tomatoes -- Open defecation free India : husband wanted; must have toilet -- In the cities : aqua-privies for Jesus -- The end : small energy.
520 $a"[A] tour through the world of human waste - one of the biggest unchallenged causes of death worldwide and, for many, to their immense cost, the last remaining taboo. Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly and hidden by euphemism, human waste is rarely out in the open in 'civilised' society ... With a journalist's nose for a story and campaigner's desire for change, Rose George ... takes us underground into the Victorian brick sewers of London and New York ... and overground to meet the heroes of India's sanitation movement. We examine the hi-tech Japanese revolution in toilet engineering, we go to sewage beds and sewage school; we investigate whether re-naming sewage sludge 'biosolids' might actually prove an eco-friendly alternative to petrol; we nip into public toilets the world over to see what they reveal about civilization; and we stand right in front of the biggest unsolved public health problem on the planet"--Cover.
650 0 $aSewage.
650 0 $aSewage disposal.
650 0 $aSewage$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSewage disposal$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSewage$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aSewage disposal$xPolitical aspects.
650 7 $aSewage.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01113736
650 7 $aSewage disposal.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01113866
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650 7 $aSewage$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01113751
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0007862316
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n100498464
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