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  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Using Human Waste
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 5:05:43 -0700

I think that for a long time they had reasonable levels of control over some
of the diseases. This most likely in areas where traditional systems and
practices had evolved and were still in used. At this point those folks are
walking down the mistaken development model of the west and are not doing a
very good job of it. From:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=272856

"Since 1998, however, growing pollution combined with failures in health-care
reform have increased the emergence of disease and environmental health
problems in China, straining the public health authorities’ ability to
contend with emerging public health crises. The rising prevalence of diseases
linked to water and air pollution, as well as animal husbandry practices—such
as diarrhea, SARS, avian flu, typhoid, and cholera—has been growing. China’s
severe water pollution stems from poorly regulated emissions from industrial,
agricultural, and municipal sources."

and

"Organic and inorganic pollutants are both main sources of water degradation
threatening human and ecological health in China. Organic pollutants
generally originate from animal or human fecal waste released untreated into
a water body. Organic waste causes diseases including dysentery, typhoid,
trachoma, and cholera. Inorganic pollutants are made up of metals, minerals,
and toxic chemicals released by industries or improperly stored wastes, which
are seriously degrading both surface and ground water in China. Inorganic
effluent has been found to cause neurological damage, paralysis, and other
serious health conditions and is a potential source of various cancers
(Banister, 1998)."

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