The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Not having internet access for the past few weeks in the new apartment meant that in my downtime I do a lot more reading, rather than surfing the web.
This book, by Rose George, is one of the books I finished. It was an thought provoking and engaging read, with lots of quotable bits of information. For example, do you know an average American uses 57 sheets of toilet paper a day? Sanitation is one of the biggest problems in the world, and poor sanitation is not confined to developing countries. It is just not as cool to say we want to bring sanitation compared to bringing water to the people (perhaps that's why a charity is named "WaterAid" - not "SanitationAid"). Water and sanitation are intricately linked. We probably also don't want to think about sewage overflowing or why we shouldn't swim at some beaches. I liked this book a lot more than Bottlemania, which is about water.
