Sanitation

Category:Waste Sanitation is a term for the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste materialss, particularly human excrement. Sanitation is an important public health measure which is essential for the prevention of disease.

Topics

\n* Toilets and the invention of the water closet\n* sewers and sewage treatment\n* cesspits\n* the germ theory of disease (and its predecessor, the miasma theory of disease)\n* Dr. John Snow and the prevention of cholera in Soho

See also

\n* Wiktionary definition of sanitation\n* Copenhagen Consensus