Sanitation and health

Sanitation and health

       Here's one link on the subject: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/factsfigures04/en/

            As a Marine I can be ruthless about public sanitation. After all I don't want to die from  cholera, for example.  Cholera is just one example of not having a public sanitation system enforced.

            Now simple procedures do work as preventative measures, in all seasons, to boot.

            Basically, dump our waste (like pee and poop) in a hole away from everything else, including where we live, cook and eat, and exist in general. Chamber pots may be coming back, too. Now for the hard up, like me, just scrounge a can or something similar and go from there. Dumping the waste is part of a ritual seldom seen these days. Depending on the situation and number of people, this pit can often grow to cesspool size, too.  Even presently USA farmers often use lagoons to handle poop and pee from pig farms, for example.

            Here's another link on the subject: http://www.unwater.org/wwd08/docs/10Things.pdf

            There are many more links on the subject, too.