The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

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(2009), "The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 20 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2009.08320aae.003

The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1

Maggie Black and Ben Fawcett,Earthscan,London,February 2008,272 pp.,ISBN 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.