Building taps and toilets for Indigenous Alaskans
Imagine you didn’t have access to a toilet – where would you go to the bathroom, and more importantly what would you do with your waste?
This is a reality for a number of Indigenous Alaskan communities who not only collect their sewage using a bucket system, but have no running water raising concern about its safeness and cleanliness.
Dena Fam is a researcher from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS who travelled to Alaska last year as part of a project to develop sustainable sanitation solutions for these communities.
Image: Courtesy CRW Engineering Group
