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A Laboratory Guide to Fungi in Polluted Waters

A Laboratory Guide to Fungi in Polluted Waters, Sewage and Sewage Treatment Systems: Their Identification and Culture (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1963) Sewage treatment has always been a fascinating subject for us here at Pistil Books, and disputes about sewage treatment and their ancillary correlates have always been a quick way to get the blood going around the office, as differing perspectives can so quickly escalate over several cups of strong coffee and the requisite afternoon fruit salad compote. But enough about our personal lives. This exciting book outlines the means by which fungi may be put to use as part of the wondrous cycle in which our poop and piss may be once again be poured into a Sparkletts bottle.
	Yes, water borne fungi thrive happily in the water treatment facilities across this great effluent-filled land of ours, and with this handy volume you can learn to quickly identify those most ravenous for our untreated waste, where they live and how they might appear in a salad. Next Back to the top
The helicomyces lilliputeus enjoys a mild urine solution and kitchen slime. Next Back to the top
	The free floating schwanniomyces alluvius likes laundry water from underwear and sock washes (in a mild detergent without bleach) as well as crushed stale corn nuts. Next Back to the top
Shown wrestling over a ball of snot, these competing absidia spinosa are voracious digesters of effluvium of all sorts and can be especially tenacious when grappling over shoe-leather scraps. Next Back to the top