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...
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