Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Local Environment Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI:10.1080/13549839.2023.2267066

Elizabeth A. Albright, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Randall A. Kramer, Erika S. Weinthal

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Abstract

The United Nations has estimated that 2.8 million individuals across the world will not have access to safely managed sanitation in 2030. In the accounting of global sanitation access, local inequities often are invisible to those counting, especially given that many of these counters are physically distant and often external to communities suffering from lack of access. Lowndes County, Alabama, a predominantly-Black county in rural Alabama (USA), provides a window into the social, racial, and environmental injustices that are present in the rural American South. Our survey of household sanitation access in Lowndes County, implemented by a collaboration of an academic institution, a local environmental justice organisation, and residents, shows that community members in the county are aware of the problems associated with failing septic systems. Producing data that can make publicly visible the lack of access to sanitation will, however, remain a challenge until institutional and structural barriers are overcome.

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阿拉巴马州朗兹县失败的化粪池系统:公民参与、科学和社区知识

联合国估计，到2030年，全球将有280万人无法获得安全管理的卫生设施。在计算全球卫生设施可及性时，计算者往往看不到地方的不平等，特别是考虑到许多计算地点距离很远，而且往往位于缺乏卫生设施的社区之外。朗兹县，阿拉巴马州，一个以黑人为主的县在农村阿拉巴马州(美国)，提供了一个窗口，目前在美国南部农村社会，种族和环境的不公正。我们对朗兹县家庭卫生设施的调查，由一个学术机构、当地环境正义组织和居民合作实施，表明该县的社区成员意识到与失败的化粪池系统相关的问题。然而，在克服体制和结构障碍之前，编制数据使缺乏卫生设施的情况公诸于众仍然是一项挑战。

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Local Environment Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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