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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] World sewage plans 'should be abandoned'
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:51:34 -0700


World sewage plans 'should be abandoned'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,910998,00.html
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Monday March 10, 2003 The Guardian

Plans to build sewage works for the 1.2 billion people in the world currently
living without fresh water and sanitation should be abandoned, according to
the incoming president of the World Water Association, Michael Rouse. Mr
Rouse, a civil servant who is head of the UK's drinking water inspectorate,
believes that sewage pipes are too expensive and too often drain into and
pollute water courses. Instead, he says, the world should revert to using
human solid waste as compost and fertiliser and allow liquids to drain into
the ground. These revolutionary ideas come from the man whose job it has been
to guard drinking water quality in the UK since privatisation of the water
and sewage industry. He is about to head the body that speaks for
professional water regulators and engineers across the world.





  • [Livingontheland] World sewage plans 'should be abandoned', Tradingpost, 03/10/2003

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