The culture of flushing : a social and legal history of sewage /

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"To most, the flush of a toilet is routine - the way we banish waste and ensure cleanliness. It is safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. Yet Jamie Benidickson's examination of the social and legal history of sewage in Canada, the United States, and the United...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benidickson, Jamie
Other Authors: Wynn, Graeme
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2007.
Series:Nature, history, society.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1700-2000.
Sewage > Social aspects > History.
Sewage > Law and legislation > History.
Sanitation > Social aspects > History.
Sewage > history
Sewage > legislation & jurisprudence
Sanitation > history
Public Health > history
Salubrité publique > Aspect social > Histoire.
Salubrité publique > Droit > Histoire.
Eaux usées > Aspect social > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Waste Management.
Sanitation > Social aspects
Sewage > Law and legislation
Kanalisation
Abwasserbeseitigung
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Risk and responsiblity in a waste-full world / Graeme Wynn
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : The culture of flishing
  • 1. The advantage of a flow of water
  • 2. Navigating aquatic priorities
  • 3. A source of civic pride
  • 4. The water closet revolution
  • 5. Municipal evacuation
  • 6. Learning to live downstream
  • 7. The bacterial assault on local government
  • 8. The dilutionary impulse at Chicago
  • 9. Separating water from the waterways
  • 10. Streams are nature's sewers
  • 11. Riparian resurrection
  • 12. Governing water
  • Conclusion : Water quality and the future of flushing
  • Notes
  • Suggested reading
  • Illustration credits
  • Index.

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