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Good one. Also goes back to the comments DeAnander made upthread: flushing toilets are still glorified. The point probably should indeed be made that ordinary flush toilets were a big boon for human hygiene (short-term strategy). Yet it now seems time for re-inventing the toilet once again (long-term strategy).
by Nomad (Bjinse) on Thu May 25th, 2006 at 03:14:55 AM EST
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Yes, I was going to make the point that urban sanitation, running water, sewers, disinfectation of sewage, were necessary to root out many nasty diseases transmitted by feces. As usual, we have gone overboard but we will be forced to come around by water scarcity.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 25th, 2006 at 03:22:46 AM EST
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