The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis
Article Type: Books and Resourses From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 10, Issue 1
Maggie Black and Ben FawcettEarthscan LondonFebruary 2008272 ppISBN 9781844075430£60.00
Lack of sanitation is a problem endured by 2.6 billion people. It is the principal reason for the spread of diarrhoeal diseases and the toll they take on human lives. This book seeks to decouple the “water and sanitation”connection, arguing that a radical new mindset is needed to make real progress in addressing today’s sanitation crisis. A century and a half ago, a long hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to a“Great Stink,” thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform.
This book calls for another sanitation reformation that will manage to spread cheaper and simpler sanitation systems to people everywhere.
