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Port-Au-Prince: A City of Millions Without a Sewer System
National Public Radio ^ | April 13, 2012 | Richard Knox

Posted on 01/13/2018 9:20:53 AM PST by PBRCat

Port-au-Prince is about the size of Chicago. But it doesn't have a sewer system. It's one of the largest cities in the world without one.

That's a big problem, but never more so than during a time of cholera... the disease is endemic — more than a half-million people have gotten sick and at least 7,050 have died.

The cumulative sewage of 3 million people flows through open ditches. It mixes with ubiquitous piles of garbage. Each night, an all-but-invisible army of workers called bayakou descend into man-sized holes with buckets to remove human waste from septic pits and latrines, then dump it into the canals that cut through the city.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disease; haiti; hellhole; sanitation; sewage
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Under Papa Doc Haiti was clean, sanitary and had a strong economic base of light manufacturing. Clinton established an embargo that completely destroyed the economic foundation of Haiti literally overnight. 90% of the economy was based on manufacturing goods for US companies. The embargo stopped this trade dead in its tracks. The Haitian economy was devastated and has not been able to be restored thanks in large measure to the continued criminal influence of the Clinton crime cabal. The Clintons are the most hated people in Haiti.


61 posted on 01/13/2018 11:25:49 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: PBRCat

While I have never been to Haiti, my employer has been many times. She is the Controller for a nonprofit that supports another nonprofit children’s home and school there. Every time she goes, I wonder if this is the time she doesn’t come back because she got sick and died or was kidnapped and killed. She keeps trying to get me to go and I keep refusing.

Based on what she has said, and what I’ve read, Haiti really is a crap place to live. As already mentioned, even after decades of assistance to the tune of trillions, including a stint or two of the US Army Corps of Engineers building miles of roads, the Haitians failed to maintain or build on anything. Crime and corruption is rampant. The Haitians that are employed by our client seem to waste no time expecting their employer to pay for every aspect of their lives. Homes, food, education, medical care, money for funerals, etc. Constantly giving them stuff may keep them from starving but it’s creating a cargo cult mentality. Don’t worry, the rich Americans will give us food.

When nothing changes after decades upon decades of assistance, it makes me conclude that too many Haitians exist only for the next handout from whatever source it comes. The kids that do make it through school and a university or trade school are faced with no industries or businesses and no money on their own to start anything.

I see why the Haitians who make it to the US don’t want to return but that doesn’t mean they should be allowed to stay. Haiti needs to fix Haiti. Root out the corruption in their government. Search for business entrepreneurs to invest. Develop and maintain modern infrastructure. Nobody would say it’s easy but considering it’s 2018, I think it’s time they try to pull even at least with the Dominican Republic.

Peach


62 posted on 01/13/2018 11:44:08 AM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: PBRCat
Hauling crap in septic tank trucks to your treatment plant is not an effective means of delivering crap from 3million people. They will never make a dent in the sh!tepile.

Ed

63 posted on 01/13/2018 11:51:22 AM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: PBRCat

Sadly, the President will probably not bring up this fact in defense of his alleged remark.


64 posted on 01/13/2018 12:34:20 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: PBRCat

IOW, Trump was right. It’s a sh!thole.


65 posted on 01/13/2018 1:03:00 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: PBRCat

Here’s something fun to do:
Go to Google maps, and type in ‘Hispaniola’, and look at the satellite map.
You can easily define the border between the two countries - the DR is lush and green, and Haiti is completely de-forested.


66 posted on 01/13/2018 1:17:49 PM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: dfwgator

How well has that worked in Puerto Rico? Putting aside the recent hurricanes, the island has never been able to complete an electrification program. The work was supposed to have begun eighty-five years ago.


67 posted on 01/13/2018 3:49:00 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: dfwgator

Who would d the O&M to keep the infrastructure running?
In 10 years it would all be in ruins.


68 posted on 01/13/2018 3:57:04 PM PST by Reily
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To: hal ogen


69 posted on 01/13/2018 4:37:34 PM PST by lewislynn ( If I had a badass rodeo bull I'd name it Trump)
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To: PBRCat

India has a national campaign to get people to use toilets rather than just do their business wherever.


70 posted on 01/13/2018 7:36:09 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: PROCON

The whole clinton criminal family should do those jobs as payment for their horrific crimes.


71 posted on 01/14/2018 6:47:54 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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