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Environmental Racism - Lowndes County, Alabama & The Right to Basic Sanitation
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A tartalmat a Jasmyn Moore & Camille White, Jasmyn Moore, and Camille White biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Jasmyn Moore & Camille White, Jasmyn Moore, and Camille White vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
In this episode we discuss the sewage crisis in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama that has been dealing with wastewater issues for decades.
And we highlight Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental and climate justice activist working to address the inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructures in rural communities in the U.S.
Visit Catherine’s website to learn more about her environmental activism, check out her book Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret*, and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Audio Clip
Confronting Failing Wastewater Systems | Catherine Flowers | TEDxFoggyBottom
Sources
The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis | The New Yorker
How Does a Septic System Work? | Southwest EFC
Black Alabamians endured poor sewage for decades. Now they may see justice. | The Washington Post
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