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Toilets – what will it take to fix them?

The global dearth of safe sewage systems needs innovation and advocacy.
  1. Josie Glausiusz

    1. Josie Glausiusz is a science journalist in Israel. Twitter: @josiegz

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Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet Chelsea Wald Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster (2021)

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Nature 592, 345-346 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00953-9

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