Waste
One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
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In this part memoir, part exposé, Catherine Flowers chronicles her decades-long battle to raise rural Lowndes County, Alabama up to modern sanitation standards. Her descriptions of raw sewage pumped into the backyards of the poor and powerless serve as a metaphor for the injustice heaped on forgotten communities throughout the United States. Shockingly, despite many victories, Flowers’s struggle to bring standard sanitation to impoverished people remains a work in progress.
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Catherine Coleman Flowers, the rural development manager at the Equal Justice Initiative, runs the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
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