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Repurposing sewage and toilet systems: environmental, public health, and person-centered healthcare applications

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Bonventre, Joseph
Özcan, Aydoğan

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2024

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en

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Global terrestrial water supplies are rapidly depleting due to the consequences of climate change. Water scarcity results in an inevitable compromise of safe hygiene and sanitation practices, leading to the transmission of water-borne infectious diseases, and the preventable deaths of over 800.000 people each year. Moreover, almost 500 million people lack access to toilets and sanitation systems. Ecosystems are estimated to be contaminated by 6.2 million tons of nitrogenous products from human wastewater management practices. It is therefore imperative to transform toilet and sewage systems to promote equitable access to water and sanitation, improve public health, conserve water, and protect ecosystems. Here, the integration of emerging technologies in toilet and sewage networks to repurpose toilet and wastewater systems is reviewed. Potential applications of these systems to develop sustainable solutions to environmental challenges, promote public health, and advance person-centered healthcare are discussed. The integration of emerging technologies in toilet and sewage networks can repurpose toilet and wastewater systems and facilitate the development of sustainable solutions to global issues. Here, environmental, public-health related, and person-centered healthcare applications of repurposed toilet and sewage networks are reviewed. Potential challenges in implementation and future directions are discussed. image

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Global Changes

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Wiley

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Multidisciplinary sciences, Struvite, Magnesium

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