sanitation

Basic Sanitation on the Reservations

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 4, 2021

One of the many legacies of July 4 is the genocide against Native peoples that continues to the present. Many of the reservations don't even have basic sanitation in 2021. When the clean water system failed at the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon this week,...

General

This Day in Labor History: August 15, 1914

By Erik Loomis

On August 15, 2015

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, completing one of the great engineering projects of the time, one that recreated racialized labor norms of the United States in Panama.

General

Modern Sanitation

By Erik Loomis

On July 6, 2014

In the late 19th century, Americans were still trying to figure out why they died of horrible diseases all the time. At this time, the idea of contagion was just.

The Toilet

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 10, 2012

One key step to improving sanitation and thus people's lives in the developing world is spreading the sanitary toilet, arguably the greatest technological innovation in history. This Bloomberg piece is a bit too magic-bullet oriented for me, as so many articles on the developing world...

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