[cogitator]

Good recent book on this:

The Big Necessity

"every 15 seconds a child dies of diarrhoea caused by contaminated water"

[yobid]

I believe humans are the only species on Earth who “do our business” in our homes.

[mrmargaritaville]

Joe the plumber sez:
“Exercise your gaskets-Flush obama”

[kellynla]

The world could have all the water & electricity it would ever need with co-generation nuclear power desalination/electrical plants.

[Spirochete]

Indians: Only 53% wash hands after defecation

Indians could make a dent in disease if they quit worshiping rats and nurturing them.

I have met a few that have religious objections to hygiene e.g, bathing. They smell horrible.

[HighlyOpinionated]

You know, this information has been pertinent for a hundred years and the U.N. has spent a zillion dollars unnecessarily that could have been used to build sanitation facilities AND their leaders have stolen half a zillion dollars that they were not entitled to.

The U.N. was given a million dollars a few years ago by Ted Turner . . . where was that spent?

The U.N. should demand all the skimmed money back and then use it to build sanitation facilities across Africa. I have NO sympathy for these thieves.

[TMD]

Does anyone remember when the Goracle was pushing “waterless” toilets? It was such a great idea, that they proposed all new construction have waterless toilets AND backup plumbing “just in case”....One of his other snakeoil schemes that would result in “everyone else” living with the stench and inconvenience...
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/22/150901.shtml

—snip
Former Vice President Al Gore joined the board of a waterless urinal company late last year (2003) to further the dry toilet cause and to help avert what many environmentalists believe is a looming international water crisis.
—snip
‘Primitive Worship’

But Robert Bidinotto, publisher of ecoNOT.com and a critic of environmentalists, dismisses such notions as “primitive-worship.”

“Incredibly, some environmentalists actually prefer that the foul messes we normally capture in diapers and landfills spill instead onto our linoleum, carpets and even our children,” Bidinotto told CNSNews.com.

Paging Dr. Freud

Noting many greens’ opposition to flush toilets and now baby diapers, Bidinotto said environmentalists’ have a “strange affinity for bodily wastes,” and he believes they have become “obsessed with toilet issues.”
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He’s just full of great ideas to ‘save’ the universe!

Makes as much sense as using ‘mosquito nets’ to prevent malaria instead of a pesticide.