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An Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation

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US Congress


May 1994

Very Useful
Report
All
Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Health/Wellness, Tribe/Community, Living in Place, Applied Technology

Excerpt:

More than 20,000 rural Native residents in Alaska live in communities without running water and where hgomes, local government offices, commercial buildings, and even medical clinics use plastic puckets for toilets--euphamistically called "honey buckets." The waste from these toilets is often spilled in the process of hauling it to disposal sites, and these spillages have led to the outbreak of epidemic diseases such as Hepatitis A.

This OTA assessment, requested by Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, reviews the status of federal government efforts to provide safe sanitation to Alaskan Natives and the technologies that have been used or proposed for this purpose. Information about similarly relevant efforts by State and Native governments is also provided. A significant portion of this research also focuses on the geographic, social, and economic settings of the Natives and their remote communities. Finally, the work examines the legislative and institutional setting for the waste sanitation problems, and the criteria that need to be applied in selecting and implementing new technologies.

Information about the resource can be found at:
ANKN Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 756730
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6730

Tel: (907) 474-5897
or email: ANKN Clearinghouse

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