This book will surprise you with its timely relevance, delight you with its humor, and impress you with its thorough research. Full of "eye-candy" illustrations, practical information, history, philosophy, and science, it addresses an issue relevant to each and every human being on Planet Earth. Includes info on composting toilets & systems, worms & disease, a day in the life of a turd, the tao of compost, alternative graywater systems, and much more. Contains 302 pages, 29 photographs, over 100 tables and figures, index, glossary, appendcices, and a few bad jokes.

This book won the "Oustanding Book Of The Year" award for independent publishers for the year 2000.

"After reading this book, you will never flush a toilet with indifference again."