Alby, please stop using the masturbation facilities

[Sava]

This.

It's macro vs micro, in a sense. Contaminate the local area with human waste? Or pump more CO2 into the atmosphere?

At this point, you gotta choose the CO2.

[The Mad Monk]

No, no you don't. Human manure is still manure.

[Sava]

No, no you don't. Human manure is still manure.

Are you retarded?

Human waste is considered a biowaste as it is a good vector for both viral and bacterial diseases. It can be a serious health hazard if it gets into sources of drinking water. The World Heath Organization reports that nearly 2.2 million people die annually from diseases caused by contaminated water

It's sad that an adult would need to be educated on this.

[Dinner]

We avoided the DFAC as the central DFAC was a prime target for enemy mortar attack especially at peak hours like during lunch. We'd either go on off peak hours (when the chances for attack were lower) or we'd buy food from Iraqi restaurants which we knew (or rather thought) to be safe. The DFAC was just a big tent so it didn't offer much in protection even if they put up concrete blast walls around it. We got so good at getting food to go at local Iraqi places we could be in and out in less than 5 minutes, we'd pick places where you could see them preparing the food in front of you, and often you could get a whole roast chicken (pre-cooked and still hot on the rotisserie), some flat bread, hummus, picked vegetables, tabule for just $4. The chicken was by far the most expensive part too because a half chicken with the same sides was like $2.50. A big falafel sandwich with a coke was like $1.25 and that was the "we're over charging the stupid Americans" price.

[regexcellent]

I doubt the KAF DFAC(s) take indirect fire nearly as much as yours did.

[The Mad Monk]

What is it that you think sewage plants do? Almost any manure needs to be composted before it can be used. Waterless methods take a couple years, but otherwise present roughly the same hazard as the septic tank in my backyard, until fully composted -- at which point, it's just compost.

It's sad that an adult would need to be educated on this.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Human poop might well harbour bacteria and viruses. Then again, so does the soil you bury it in. Welcome to unhygienic reality.

[Dinner]

I doubt the KAF DFAC(s) take indirect fire nearly as much as yours did.

Probably true simply because it is a much larger base though Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) was also a large base and it had the Green Zone attached to it and there were still regular attacks both in the form of bombings (suicide bombings and car bombings) as well as mortar fire from the city. Up in Kirkuk (where I spent most of my time) it was a much less urban environment.

[regexcellent]

Human poop might well harbour bacteria and viruses. Then again, so does the soil you bury it in. Welcome to unhygienic reality.

People have known since antiquity (longer really) that you don't dig wells near where you keep your livestock.

[Sava]

I can't believe the use of portopotties has turned into an argument.

[Asher]

You're welcome.

[molly bloom]

Human poop might well harbour bacteria and viruses. Then again, so does the soil you bury it in. Welcome to unhygienic reality.

Cholera and polio, for two. Bazalgette's improvements London were much needed.

http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/

New York's Collect Pond caused a few outbreaks too:

Located on Leonard Street between Centre and Lafayette Streets, this park occupies the eighteenth century site of Collect Pond. The pond was a large, sixty-foot deep pool fed by an underground spring. The waters derived their name from seventeenth century Dutch settlers, who called it “kolch” meaning “small body of water”. Following the English capture of New Amsterdam (1664), the name was corrupted to “collect.” Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Collect Pond was a favorite spot for picnics and ice-skating. In 1796, John Fitch (1743-1798) launched one of the first experimental steamboats on the waters. During this time, the pond was still clean enough to use for the area’s drinking water. By the early nineteenth century, however, New York City had transformed the sparkling waters into a communal open sewer. Disgusted, local authorities initiated a project to fill the sewer with earth from an adjacent hill. In 1805, in order to drain the garbage-infested waters, designers opened a forty-foot wide canal that today is known as Canal Street.

By 1811, the City had completed the filling of Collect Pond. A neighborhood known as Paradise Square soon arose over the pond’s previous site. Unfortunately, due to the area’s extremely high water table, Paradise Square began to sink in the 1820’s. The neighborhood also began to emit a foul odor, prompting the most affluent residents to leave the community. By the 1830s, Paradise Square had become the notorious “Five Points,” an extremely poor and dangerous neighborhood renowned for its crime and filth.

Five streets comprised the “Five Points,” giving the neighborhood its name: Mulberry Street, Anthony (present-day Worth) Street, Cross (present-day Musco) Street, Orange (present-day Baxter) Street, and Little Water Street (no longer exists). Numerous criminal gangs roamed the neighborhood, extorting money from residents and running prostitution rings. Many early twentieth century criminals, such as Lucky Luciano (1897-1962) and Al Capone (1899-1947), had their start in “Five Points” street gangs. Crime was only one half of the story in the “Five Points”: the high population density of the neighborhood and the existence of a subterranean swamp precipitated the outbreak of disease. Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all of the city’s cholera outbreaks originated in this neighborhood.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/M242/history

[Aeson]

I can't believe the use of portopotties has turned into an argument.

Arguing about **** is what the internet is all about.

[Tuberski]

Fake.

ACK!

[Colonâ„¢]

I can't believe the use of portopotties has turned into an argument.

The thread title was gramatically sound, so what else can you argue about?