Amy Kryston | Sanitation as a Basic Human Right

About this episode

Amy Kryston discusses the lack of access to safely managed sanitation in the U.S. and her research on the social barriers to adequate wastewater treatment.

Six million people living in the United States do not have access to safely managed sanitation. But Amy Kryston is cautiously optimistic that this public health problem can be solved in our lifetimes. In 2022, Amy began a deep dive into this staggering statistic. Through the UNC Institute for the Environment's Environmental Justice Graduate Research Award, she wrote a systematic review on the social barriers to adequate wastewater treatment. Her work was published in the Internation...

People in this episode

Guest: Amy Kryston

Topics covered

• sanitation
• public health
• environmental justice
• wastewater treatment
• social barriers

Keywords

• sanitation
• public health
• wastewater treatment
• environmental justice
• social barriers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UNC Institute for the Environment

Books & works: International

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