Books in Penfield Library
Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies Through the Centuries by
Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries presents and discusses the major achievements in the scientific fields of sanitation and hygienic water use systems throughout the millennia, and compares the water technological developments in several civilizations. It provides valuable insights into ancient wastewater and stormwater management technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in sanitary engineering and wastewater management practices.Stories in the Time of Cholera by
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night. Why did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves.
Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers.
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Videos in Penfield Library
CDC Global. "Ebola illustration: dumping waste." Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdcglobal/15138204613/ CC BY 2.0.
Mitchell, E. "Oswego River - Sewer System Overflow." CC BY-NC.
Open Educational Resources
- Sanitation & Water Supply in Low-income CountriesCovers an introduction to the global sanitation and water supply crisis, water- and excreta-related diseases, sanitation systems, water supply systems, programming and planning, economic issues, etc.
- Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing CountriesThis open course from MIT "examines the policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries."
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