Waste

Although most of us take the right to flush and forget for granted, there are parts of this country where sewage is never forgotten. That's because it flows into yards, fields, and streets. Catherine Coleman Flowers has made solving this problem her mission. Coleman Flowers is a MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and author of "Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret"–