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Flush with Inequality: Sanitation in South Africa

Written by Mathew on November 19, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Jonathan Lukens sent us this Design Observer article by Barbara Penner on sanitation in South Africa.  It is worth the long read, carefully pointing out the class and colonial assumptions behind by treating dry toilets as engineering solutions for the poor rather than design problems for everyone.  It really gets to the issues of market-driven [...]

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The Other WTO

Written by Mathew on August 18, 2010 — Leave a Comment

The World Toilet Organization. Check out this amazingly comprehensive 158 page compendium (PDF link) of toilets, sanitation, and sewage technologies.

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We’re speaking at PSU on January 25th

noon on a Wednesday. Room 296 in the Smith Memorial Student Union (near SW Broadway and SW Harrison). We will speak about the recent history of urban sanitation, and the dual crisises of resource management and aging infrastructure driving the development and deployment of alternatives.  The talk will focus on case studies of alternative systems in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and Yemen.
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