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Public latrines not for local residents: VR Environmental Health and Sanitation Office
Those who reside in communities without their own toilets are infringing on the rights of others, the Volta Regional Environmental Health Director (REHD), Stella Kumedzro, has said. She explained that public latrines are meant exclusively for use by people in transit and not local residents. “Toilet and sanitation are now a human rights issue and those who reside in the communities without their own toilets are infringing on the rights of others,” she said. In an interview to mark World Toilet Day (WTD) Ms Kumedzro said that those who engaged in open defecation, for instance, were creating a nuisance in the communities with the offensive odour from the excrement. Further,…
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Residents on ABQ’s southern edge raise environmental justice concerns
Members of the Mountain View Neighborhood Association and their supporters pose Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., as they introduce a new proposal aimed at limiting pollution in disadvantaged communities in New Mexico’s largest metro area. It will be up to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Air Quality Board whether to schedule a hearing to consider the measure. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press) On the southern edge of New Mexico’s largest city is a Hispanic neighborhood that used to be made up of a patchwork of family farms and quiet streets, but industrial development has closed in over the decades, bringing with it pollution. Neighbors point to…
