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[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Essay

Yes, an important consideration!

Amazon.com: The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters: Rose George: Books
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

...talks about how 40% of the world's population has no bucket ...or better,
and how disease from unmanaged human waste kills more than any other cause,
and how modern sanitation "has added 20 years to the average human life."
& "90 percent of the globe’s sewage ends up untreated in oceans, rivers and lakes."
quotes from: Scientific American Reviews: Scroll down past "...the Great Pyramid:" review
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A bloody awful situation

I read recently that the reason China has such a large population now is Tea.
2,000 years ago Chinese drank boiled water for their tea; while Europeans were popping off with all sorts of water-borne diseases.