“On the future of toilets and bathrooms, and innovation across the field of sanitation and waste management.”
Sewage
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‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut
Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
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Waste Away
“To say that we’re drowning in our shit—the shit we all made together—is no longer a figure of speech in Lebanon today.” Lina Mounzer writes about Beirut’s broken sewage system and the political and economic factors that have drowned the city in its own waste.
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From the Sewer to the Syringe
Biomedical researchers find remedies for antibiotic-resistant infections in grody places.
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Sh*t or Get Off the Composter
Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.