Tag: #Disease

• London, as so many cities have done for millennia, uses its river for waste. In 1858 disease and ‘The Great Stink’ led to Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s super-sewer for 4 million people.

  

  150 years later the population is now closer to 10 million. This is what’s happening… Forward Thinking BC. To get a handle on how advanced the thinking was on ‘waste management’ thousands of years ago, the Mesopotamians had already figured clay sewer pipes around c.4000 BC. Utilised to remove wastewater, and capture rainwater in wells. But,…

  markhendriksen

  Jun 18, 2020

  3Ps, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Sanitation, Sewage, Sewers, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water

  #bacteria, #balzagette, #civilisation, #combined sewer flow, #Disease, #London, #rainwater, #river thames, #runoff, #sanitation, #sewage, #sewers, #sir joseph bazalgette, #stormwater, #tideway, #treatment works

• ‘Beauty Spots’ where to go when there’s nowhere to go? This week’s news on loos & no. 2s.

  

  Scoop the Poop. The past few weeks have seen more and more people out and about in the sunshine at parks and beaches. But at the same time public toilets have so far remained shut. This has led to a number of headlines highlighting the growing problem of ‘where to go when there’s nowhere to…

  markhendriksen

  Jun 4, 2020

  3Ps, Animal Waste, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Sewage, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water

  #BBQ, #Beaches, #Coronavirus, #Disease, #Dog Poop, #health and wellbeing, #hygiene, #Jenny Yuen, #Lezlie Lowe, #LiveScience, #Lockdown, #Outdoors, #Parks, #poop, #Recreation Areas, #Rose George, #sanitation, #Sophie Wilkinson, #The Big Necessity, #The Toronto Sun, #toilets, #When Nature Calls, #WHO

• ‘Mr. Toilet. The World’s #2 Man’ is now available on Amazon.

  

  A film title that may feel less than serious than it actually is, as this film has an important message. A docu-film about one man’s mission to focus world attention on the enormous percentage of the population who have no access to basic sanitation and/or water. What percentage? According to the World Health Organisation it’s…

  markhendriksen

  May 5, 2020

  3Ps, Loos and No. 2s, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Water

  #Community, #Disease, #education, #Global Problems, #hygiene, #Jack Sim, #Lily Zepeda, #Matt Damon, #Mr Toilet, #Pee, #poop, #Poverty, #sanitation, #toilets, #UN, #Water, #WHO