Not every American has access to basic sanitation. This leader is out to change that.

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By Catherine Coleman FlowersNov 19, 2020, 3:55 am459 ptsHot
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the rural development manager for the Equal Justice Initiative and an environmental health researcher working to bring basic sanitation to rural communities — a campaign she details in Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. In this excerpt, which has been…

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