Sewer Systems

This is a little gross but I'm catching you up on all the excitement in my life...not so exciting though.

I guess while they're making the new road they decided to go ahead and clean out the sewer system...they did it last week while I was trapped in the bathroom but even without going outside I knew when they were cleaning it out.

The way it works, well, there are concrete slabs all along the side of the dirt street that loosely 'cover' the open sewer. They come and remove all the concrete slabs and someone gets inside it, literally. It is usually a man either barefoot or in flip flops and shorts who jumps in the hole that is about 3 feet deep with no protective gear. Then, without gloves, he actually scoops up everything that is in the sewer and puts it in the street. When he is done he leaves, leaving the raw sewage in the middle of the street and the concrete slab right next to the open hole.

And this is why there are always outbreaks of diseases in this place. He puts my dysentary filled sewage in the street, it rains and makes puddles that go back into the sewer and no doubt get into the water system at some point. Kids play in the puddles in the rain, then eat without washing their hands. The rain runs in from the street and floods peoples houses and they use buckets to empty out their house or the water gets into their kitchen and infects some of their food that they eat without washing their hands.

Top all this off with the fact that the people here who actually do wash their hands don't even use soap, they just rinse them with water, and the neighborhood has dysentary. It's not rocket science and it's also not my fault if and when people around here start getting sick.