A commenter to an April Onsite Installer article says it’s a sad day when people in a wealthy country like the United States have to live with substandard sanitation. The article and the complete comment can be found at:

 https://www.onsiteinstaller.com/editorial/2012/04/poor_people_poor_soil_poor_sanitation

The comment reads in part: “It’s hard to believe that in this day and age people are being forced to live like they did back in the 1700s and1800s, or in the slums of South America or Africa. And what’s even more disturbing is that once again the lawmakers on both sides of the border [U.S./Canada] sit on their hands and either spend very little or nothing at all to ameliorate the problem. And yes, it happens in Canada as well.

“You would think that two of the richest nations in the world, who have worked together to put men on the moon and explore space beyond the wildest expectations, could put something together so that sewage treatment and availability of safe potable water is in every single household. It seems ludicrous that along with the infrastructure failures all over North America, now we have people getting sick from being poisoned by raw sewage, and then being forced to pay for their own medical care, which they really cannot afford either...

“Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to make this a local election issue during the Presidential Election campaign. If other self-serving groups can make their own pleas be heard and acted upon, folks in the Black Belt could do the same for the greater good of everyone.”