Document Type
Report
Publication Date
5-2019
Abstract
This report seeks to bring attention to the unique plight of rural U.S. communities struggling to secure basic sanitation and wastewater. The problem of inadequate and unaffordable water services has received increasing coverage in recent years, and the focus here is on bringing attention to less well-known structural challenges that impede access to sanitation, and the unique ways they impact rural residents.
Disciplines
Health Law and Policy | Human Rights Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), Human Rights Institute & Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
Flushed and Forgotten: Sanitation and Wastewater in Rural Communities in the United States,
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/human_rights_institute/13