Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet

Pipe Dreams traces a history long flushed from many of our imaginations, the miracle (and the failure) of the porcelain throne. Chelsea Wald provides an entertaining, yet nuanced, account of how the toilet has increased our life spans through reducing disease (at least for the half of the world's population who has access), while excreting a precious resource--water. Readers will learn how proposed revolutions in sanitation could alleviate climate change and water scarcity, optimize public health, reduce social and economic inequality, and improve agriculture and local food systems. 

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