Microbial Machines

Experiments with Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in India

Kelly D. Alley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39431-5 (ISBN)

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Around 2004, members of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, science institutes, and private companies throughout India began brainstorming and then experimenting with small-scale treatment systems that could produce usable water from wastewater. Through detailed case studies, Microbial Machines describes how residents, workers, and scientists interact with technology, science, and engineering during the processes of treatment and reuse. Using a human-machine-microbe framework, Kelly Alley explores the ways that people's sensory perceptions of water—including disgust—are dynamic and how people use machines and microbes to digest wastewater. A better understanding of how the human and nonhuman interact in these processes will enable people to generate more effective methods for treating and reusing wastewater. While decentralized wastewater treatment systems may not be a perfect solution, they alleviate resource stress in regions that are particularly hard hit by climate change. These case studies have broad relevance for solving similar problems in many other places around the world.

Kelly D. Alley is Alma Holladay Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Auburn University and Associate Editor of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water (WIREs Water).

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
1. Sanitation and Institutional Complexity
2. Inventing Bioreactors
3. Double Burdens
4. Horticultural, Partial, and Off-Grid Reuse
5. Closed Loops and Emerging Reuse
6. Pretend Machines
7. Conclusions

Glossary
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	22 b-w illustrations, 2 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39431-3 / 0520394313
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39431-5 / 9780520394315
Zustand	Neuware