Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

If you're interested in environmental justice, sustainability, environmental engineering, or fighting poverty criminalization, then this book is for you.
It was part autobiography, which was more interesting than some autobiographical books I've read, but still not something I'm very interested in ever, about anyone.

The crux of the book is about failing wastewater infrastructure in rural Alabama and one woman's journey to try and stop cops from throwing people in jail for being too poor to fix the problems, and instead getting money to fix the problems.
We claim to be the richest, most powerful country on earth. And yet we literally have people who live next to open sewage, and are too poor to fix the problem. For some reason, this country thinks throwing poor people in prison for being poor is somehow a solution.

A good country, a civilized country would create a universal floor of basic services (UBS) for every person living in the country. That way we don't have things like people living next to open sewage and getting infected with hookworm, a tropical parasite that was previously thought to have been eradicated in the mid 1900's.

While the previous president was trying to stop immigration from “shithole countries” we have people in this country literally living next to shit holes.
Good book. Fairly short. Extremely important. Highly recommended.