Mark Nelson, PhD, takes us on a global expedition to learn how we are wasting the world’s dwindling supplies of fresh water by flushing away a very valuable resource — our own human wastes!
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Why this book matters
- Reframes human waste as a resource rather than a problem — a paradigm shift with profound implications for water security and ecological health
- Takes readers on a global expedition to see how communities around the world are turning wastewater into gardens, food, and clean water
- Written by Mark Nelson, PhD, a veteran of the Biosphere 2 experiment and one of the world’s leading experts in closed ecological systems
- Practical, accessible, and urgently relevant as freshwater scarcity becomes one of the defining crises of the 21st century
- A hopeful and actionable guide to preserving the planet — one flush at a time
