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This book examines the increasingly prevalent issues around sewerage and sewage and explores what environmental health practitioners (EHPs) can contribute to addressing this issue and what further action is required. The book sets out an analysis of the contents of raw sewage, including what should not be flushed away, explaining that householders who flush non-flushable products into the sewerage system contribute to the problem (and also give the water and sewerage companies an excuse). The work explains the terminology used and will also examine the legal issues that have arisen from failure of the UK sewerage system to operate or be operated as intended to protect public health. The oper...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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"Sewerage and Sewage Treatment" by Harold E. Babbitt often goes overlooked as simply a manual about sewage and drainage protocol during the late 1800s and early 1900s. However, that is far from the truth. Babbitt, a university professor, manages to make the topic not only informative but also fascinating. By illustrating the ways in which cities' drainage systems functioned, in fact, allows modern readers to learn about society during the time the text was written. Thus, even if the information contained within the pages of the book is outdated, the interest in reading it still remains.