A Toilet, but No Proper Plumbing: A Reality in 500,000 U.S. Homes
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article de presse Sep 2016
Ed. The New York Times - New York
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Abstract:
While one in five American homes are not connected to municipal sewer systems, in poor rural areas, failing or non-existent septic systems mean raw sewage threatens public health. In Lowndes County, Alabama, a combination of poverty and dense clay soil means some residents cannot afford to build or maintain septic systems. In-home running water and electricity were also slow to arrive in this rural county (one of the poorest in Alabama), and some residents did not install indoor toilets until the mid-1990s. With low incomes and low tax bases, neither residents nor local governments can afford the thousands of dollars required to bridge this seldom-discussed infrastructure gap: the US Census Bureau estimates that a half a million households across the country are without running water or indoor sanitation.
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