Others wanted to employ every available weapon at once, from free drinking water and antibiotics to aggressive case-tracking, mass vaccination, and water and sewer system building.
Didn't Joseph Bazalgette stop the Thames being a Victorian sewer by building tunnels that carried off human waste to the Romanesque pumping stations of Crossness and Abbey Mills?
Engineers and geologists are careful to note that "technogenic factors" like sewer and building heat and chemical pollution are also warming the permafrost in places like Norilsk, the most polluted city in Russia.
The report highlights, among other things, that 13 American airports have runways that could be inundated by rising sea levels, and that billions of dollars will be needed to repair Alaskan roads, pipelines, sewer systems, buildings and airports where melting permafrosts are disrupting the landscape.
That will include maintaining and upgrading its water mains and sewers and building new water treatments works in Conwy, Ceredigion and on Anglesey.
I had imagined sewers and buildings and vast planes when listening to music, but now I saw a room filled with points of light and balloons.
They may be small, but they live in sewers, derelict buildings, dumps; areas where a human would fall sick and die rapidly are where rats thrive.
In recent days, those contractors said they would be forced to halt their operations, including projects that range from digging sewer lines to building roads and aiding ministries.
In exchange, he was promised a job building sewer systems at a monthly salary of about $225 ,nearly twice what he earned at home.
When the Americans first came, building sewer systems in every community would have been a good way to put millions of Afghans to work and to help us get back on our feet after three decades of war.
