Right now half the US is in a drought and yet the vast majority of American households still flush the toilet with clean drinking water. Think about it. Every time you flush, water that could be used to drink, cook, grow food, or bathe is being actively contaminated. Not only that, but Americans spend tens of billions of dollars a year to maintain infrastructure to treat and manage all that polluted water.
As part of the promotion of my new book After the Flush, a few different journalistic outlets have reached out to discuss such paradoxes of modern American sanitation as well as the possibilities for enacting alternative systems. If you have access to Bloomberg, you can read this brief Q&A or you can find an excerpt of the book in Earth Island Journal, which is freely accessible and draws on my interviews with Joe Jenkins, author of The Humanure Handbook.
