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  • From: <pbunch@cox.net>
  • To: livingontheland <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Using Human Waste
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 7:14:42 -0700

Several people on the list have mentioned the use of human waste for
agricultural purposes. I'm interested in what peoples experience has been
with this and what kinds of precautions people are taking to break the
pathogen-human cycles in order to avoid disease transmission. The World
health Organization has done a lot of work on this and their guidelines are
available online.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/wastewater/gsuww/en/index.html

This appears to me to be one of the crucial linkages that will have to be
established in a steady state economy. Nutrient recycling is a fundamental
ecosystem function/service which must be integrated in the closed human-earth
system. Of course pathogens have evolved to exploit this system and we have
to assure a reasonable level of safety.

Phil Bunch




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