Mar 13 2013
The Guardian describes a program being run by Soil (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) in Haiti, in which human waste is being collected and recycled "into fertile soil, simultaneously helping to fight cholera and deforestation, and revive food production." The newspaper notes, "Haiti is trying to fight what has exploded into the worst cholera epidemic in modern history, with 57 percent of global cholera cases last year concentrated on this tiny half-island." In addition to Soil's program, "[t]he Haitian government recently built several sewage treatment plants that process traditional pit latrine waste in open-air stabilization ponds. [The government] and sewage treatment companies such as Jedco are experimenting with the alchemy of transforming a potentially deadly substance into a rich and much-needed fertilizer," the Guardian writes (Doucet, 3/10).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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