With scientists, engineers and people from communities like Lowndes County, Flowers this month launched the Wastewater Innovation and Environmental Justice Lab at Columbia University. ***Many residents in rural Lowndes County cannot afford septic systems. Even some homes that are connected to a municipal sewage system, like this one, suffer from sewage coming out of the ground. Stokely Carmichael worked to form the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which registered Black voters and helped elect the county’s first Black officials. “We have to do better.”Wiping her eyes, she added: “In Pam’s memory.”***Flowers has a vision for a better septic system.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2020 12:22 UTC