In Part I of this three-part article, I outlined the staggering number of Americans who live without safe water and sanitation. That number is more than 2 million and includes men, women and children here, today, in the United States. In Part II, I explained the challenges that one area of the U.S., Lowndes County, Alabama, is facing due to soil conditions which are not favorable for traditional septic systems and how the poverty rate there is forcing the residents to use “straight-pipe” systems to discharge their wastewater.
In this final article, I’m going to give you an overview of how
