| A Toilet, but No Proper Plumbing: A Reality in 500,000 US Homes |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=21022"><span class="small">Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:07 |
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Tavernise writes: "Nearly half a million households in the United States lack the basic dignity of hot and cold running water, a bathtub or shower, or a working flush toilet, according to the Census Bureau. The absence has implications for public health in the very population that is the most vulnerable."
A Toilet, but No Proper Plumbing: A Reality in 500,000 US Homes29 September 16
So Ms. Rudolph, 64, did what many people around here do. She ran a plastic pipe from her toilet under her yard and into the woods behind her house. Paying to put in a septic tank would cost around $6,000 — a little more than half of her family’s annual income. “It was a whole lot of money,” she said. “It still is.” |
he hard clay soil in this rural Southern county has twice cursed Dorothy Rudolph. It is good for growing cotton and cucumbers, the crops she worked as a child and hated. And it is bad for burying things — in particular, septic tanks.