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Waste is a human invention.Waste and pollution are human inventions. For many years, I accepted these concepts as essential facts of life, problems that simply had to be managed. As a young environmental engineer, I worked with isolated communities in the mountains of Central America to enable acce...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/factsreports,
Autor principal: Luers, Amy
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Field Actions Science Reports 2021
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:Waste is a human invention.Waste and pollution are human inventions. For many years, I accepted these concepts as essential facts of life, problems that simply had to be managed. As a young environmental engineer, I worked with isolated communities in the mountains of Central America to enable access to potable water, which is essentially freshwater that has not been contaminated by human, animal, or industrial waste. To find an uncontaminated water source, we would search for a spring in th...