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Global Sanitation & Transforming The Toilet
Global Sanitation & Transforming The Toilet
6/30/21 by NPR
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The United Nations estimates that 4.2 billion people — more than half of the world’s population — live without any access to safely managed sanitation. No septic systems. No waste treatment plants. In ‘Pipe Dreams,’ Chelsea Wald examines the health issues related to sanitation and looks at global efforts to manage human waste, including turning it into fuel and fertilizer.
Engineering Matters – How Sewers Work (feat. Fake Poop)
Sewers are an effective and efficient way to move poop and wastewater but can cause a lot of environmental issues.
NPR
When business owner Bobby Read approached the Brooksville City Council about purchasing a municipal building at the base of the small Florida city's water tower, he didn't expect the water tower to come with it.
Read discovered the mistake after the property had been sold to him for $55,000. The certified personal trainer intended to turn the building, which various city departments used for storage, into a personal training studio named Downtown Athletics. But when he went to the county property appraiser's office to get an address for his new business, the county told him he'd received much more than the building — several thousand gallons more.
River Runner
Ever wonder how that pee got from the tree you peed on got to the ocean, this interactive map has the answer.
Sierra Club sues Weitsman scrap metal yards over water pollution
Albany, N.Y. — The Sierra Club is taking a major upstate operator of scrap metal yards to court, contending the company, Ben Weitsman and Son, hasn’t taken adequate steps to protect against storm water discharge washing hazardous metals into streams and rivers including the Hudson.