Product Description: One person uses more than 20,000 sheets of toilet paper each year. That means a family of four uses more than 80,000 sheets! But what happens to all that used tissue? Readers follow this and other waste through the toilet to discover this very answer! Full-color photographs and a simple graphic organizer aid readers understanding of this everyday process, including an accessible description of common waste management...read more

Product Description: Have you ever thought about how a toilet works? Theres interesting science behind this simple machine. This book shows you how the various parts of a toilet work together to make quick work of a dirty job.

Product Description: Have you ever thought about what really happens when you flush a toilet? In this book, students will learn all about this quirky subject and the different parts of this simple machine. From the bowl, the tank, the handle, and stopper, students will learn

Product Description: Celebrated author-illustrator and master explainer David Macaulay brings his unique voice and style to high-interest nonfiction books for newly independent readers. Everyone knows what a toilet is for, right? But what exactly happens after you flush? Where does our waste go, and how is it made safe? With his unique blend of informative text and illustration, David Macaulay takes readers on a tour of the bathroom, plumbing, and the sewer system, from the familiar family toilet to the mysterious municipal water treatment plant...read more

Product Description: This book explains the mechanics of how toilets operate while touching on sewage and wastewater treatment. The book discusses the history of the invention and why it's so important.

View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don’t touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for men, don’t look down or let your eyes stray. Even washing one’s hands are tied to anxieties of disgust and humiliation. And yet other things also happen in these spaces: babies are changed, conversations are had, make-up is applied, and notes are scrawled for posterity.Beyond these private issues, there are also real public concerns: problems of public access, ecological waste, and—in many parts of the world―sanitation crises. At public events, why are women constantly waiting in long lines but not men? Where do the homeless go when cities decide to close public sites? Should bathrooms become standardized to accommodate the disabled? Is it possible to create a unisex bathroom for transgendered people?In Toilet, noted sociologist Harvey Molotch and Laura Norén bring together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom. These noted scholars offer an assessment of our historical and contemporary practices, showing us the intricate mechanisms through which even the physical design of restrooms—the configurations of stalls, the number of urinals, the placement of sinks, and the continuing segregation of women’s and men’s bathrooms—reflect and sustain our cultural attitudes towards gender, class, and disability. Based on a broad range of conceptual, political, and down-to-earth viewpoints, the original essays in this volume show how the bathroom—as a practical matter―reveals competing visions of pollution, danger and distinction.Although what happens in the toilet usually stays in the toilet, this brilliant, revelatory, and often funny book aims to bring it all out into the open, proving that profound and meaningful history can be made even in the can.Contributors: Ruth Barcan, Irus Braverman, Mary Ann Case, Olga Gershenson, Clara Greed, Zena Kamash,Terry Kogan, Harvey Molotch, Laura Norén, Barbara Penner, Brian Reynolds, and David Serlin.

Product Description: Are you ready to go behind the scenes of our amazing sanitation system? From the history of toilets to the mystery of tap water, each book reveals what goes on after the flush and after the trash has been taken out. Youll never look at garbage, toilets, and waste the same way again...read more

Product Description: The biography of one of the great unsung engineers of the Victorian era. Thomas Crapper was the man who revolutionized the nation's water closets through his invention of Crapper's Valveless Water Waste Preventer in 1872, the forerunner of the modern cistern system.

A look at sewage systems offers a simple text that provides young readers with a basic understanding of the technology known as plumbing and offers clear illustrations.

Eight articles exploring the construction and environmental benefits of such alternatives to water-borne bathroom-waste systems as composting toilets and compatible greywater systems are followed by a directory of sources for hardware

Product Description: You can give back to nature those raw materials we now regard as "waste." This book, written by a leading authority on appropriate technology, offers homeowner plans for several types of dry toilets, compost privys and greywater systems...read more