Current wastewater management paradigms favor centralized solutions, as taught in
traditional engineering schools, which imply high capital costs, long-range water transfer …

Floods as diachronic and international phenomena affect numerous people, buildings and
infrastructure. Throughout human history, floods are the most lethal and have caused more …

Contaminated water and poor sanitation are associated with disease transmission. Absent,
inadequate, or improperly managed water resources and sanitation systems expose …

Ecological sanitation (Ecosan) technology was introduced to improve sanitation through the
reuse of excreta resources, particularly in developing countries. However, the adoption of …

Throughout history, various civilizations developed methodologies for the collection and
disposal of human waste. The methodologies throughout the centuries have been …

Advanced, well organized, and operated urban water supply systems existed in Greece from
the Bronze Age (ca. 3200–1100 BC). At the dawn of human history, surface water and …

Urban wastewater and storm management has a long history which coincides with the
appearance of the first organized human settlements (ca. 3500 BC). It began in prehistoric …

Despite flushable toilet invention being helpful to humans, especially in towns and cities,
flushing waste has become very expensive both in household and public places coupled …

This paper reconstructs the history of the publications relating to the results of Captain
Montagu Brownlow Parker's 1909–1911 excavations in Jerusalem, comprising the English …

Nutrients in excretions could serve as fertilizers, but are seen as a pollution. I first describe
the current situation of the French sanitation system: about 10% of the N and 50% of the P in …