A United Nations official recently visited Alabama’s Black Belt to report on poverty and claimed the area’s sewage disposal problems are the worst he’s seen in a First-World country.The official, Philip Alston of Australia, was on a 15-day tour of the U.S. for his investigation in mid-December.A local activist named Aaron Thigpen showed Alston a number of homes in Lowndes and Butler counties, many of them discharging raw waste into open trenches and pits via PVC pipe. In one case, a drinking-water line ran through an open-air waste pit.When it rains, sewage spreads around, leaving behind a mess of bacteria and
Open-Air Sewage Pits in Alabama Getting United Nations' Attention
Dec 19, 2017 | by Anthony Drew |
