INTRODUCTION The circumstances of the economic crisis of the 1990s forced the Cuban leadership to divorce the agricultural model of the previous three decades characterized by large Soviet-style farms, copious petrochemical use, and sugar monoculture, for a far more diverse, direct, and sustainable model that continues to develop today. Within this abstract framework, the phenomena […]
Evaluation and Design of a Decentralized Alternative to Conventional Wastewater Infrastructure in Cuba
Notes1 INTRODUCTION Water is essential to all known forms of life. It is fundamental as a solvent for all the major components of cells, is essential to metabolic processes, and is required for photosynthesis. The importance of water however, is often overlooked. As Rachel Carson wrote in her 1962 work, Silent Spring, “In an age […]