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It would be fair to say Sasha Kramer has a potty mouth. Almost since arriving in Haiti over ten years ago, as a PHD candidate, she's focused her energy tirelessly on human sanitation and the health consequences due to the lack of it.

In affluent Western cultures, feces flushes away with the flick of a lever and is forgotten. In Haiti, the residents are not so lucky.
There's an ever-present danger of contracting a life-threatening illness or disease from waterborne pathogens, due to s poorly placed toilets seeping human waste into the water table.

After observing the toll on human lives, she's trying to change that and how Haitians regard their waste. Based on the idea that people regardless of their living conditions have to defecate,

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