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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, a woman defecates along the shoreline in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In a country where flush toilets are used by less than 10 percent of the population, millions of poor Haitians still openly defecate in fields and gullies, dispose of their waste in plastic bags they throw into vacant lots, or use pit latrines that get emptied by "bayakou", or human waster cleaners. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, Auguste Augustin, left, visits with a friend in Port-au-Prince's La Saline slum, Haiti. Augustin has no shame talking about his labor. He's been doing it for decades and says he's proud his hard work feeds his family. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Dieusel Gerlin, a bayakou", or human waste cleaner, pours water into a jug he will use to bathe himself after a night of removing human waste from a pit latrine, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The country still relies mostly on crude methods of waste disposal that have crippled its ability to combat cholera, the water-borne illness that can cause diarrhea so severe that victims can die of dehydration in hours if they don't get treatment. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, the shadows of bayakou", or human waste cleaners, are cast on a wall next to sacks filled with human waste, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Haitian waste cleaners take to the streets at night doing a miserable, indispensable job that creates such social scorn that few admit they do it at all. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, "bayakou", or human waste cleaner Dieusel Gerlin, removes human waste from a pit latrine in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Latrine cleaners form the lowest ranks of a primitive sanitation system that partly explain the fierce persistence of cholera in Haiti since it was introduced to the country's largest river in October 2010 by sewage from a base of U.N. peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, and his crew, haul away sacks of human waste, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some of the bayakou, who are nocturnal workers, are hired by sanitation companies. But most are independent operators who empty into drainage canals in violation of the law, creating ideal conditions for the spread of cholera and other diseases. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, balances himself at the top of a pit latrine ready to receive human waste from a coworker, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti still relies mostly on crude methods of waste disposal that have crippled its ability to combat cholera, a water-borne illness that can cause diarrhea so severe that victims can die of dehydration in hours if they don't get treatment. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, carries a sack filled with human waste to be hauled away and dumped before sunrise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitian waste cleaners take to the streets at night doing a miserable, indispensable job that creates such social scorn that few admit they do it at all. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Dieusel Gerlin, a"bayakou", or waste cleaner, uses candles for illumination before descending into the pit of an outhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bayakou strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench, before they squeeze themselves into the latrine pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with their bare hands. The Bayakou form the lowest ranks of a primitive sanitation system largely responsible for the fierce persistence of cholera in this country since it was introduced to the country’s largest river in October 2010 by sewage from a base of United Nations peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Wake Forest offensive lineman Justin Herron lifts running back Matt Colburn after Wake Forest defeated Temple 34-26 in the Military Bowl NCAA college football game, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016 in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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FILE - In this September 2013 aerial file photo provided by the Massachusetts Deptartment of Conservation and Recreation, a dirt and stone road leads to Mount Zion Island, at rear, at the Quabbin Reservoir in Petersham, Mass. A plan by the state to start a colony of venomous timber rattlesnakes on the off-limits island in the state's largest drinking water supply came under fire, and became one of New England's odd stories in 2016. (Clif Read, The Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation via AP, File)
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In this Nov. 14, 2016 photo, a billboard along the highway near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, features an ant drawing and the Spanish slogan, "Freedom from bachaqueros." Venezuelans call people who make a living illegally reselling food "bachaqueros," after the leaf-cutter ants that haul food through the jungles. (AP Photo/ Ariana Cubillos)
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President George W. Bush walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (credit)
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This Dec. 29, 2015, photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows an albatross that had been killed on its nest with an egg at Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve on the westernmost point of Oahu in Hawaii. Christian Gutierrez, a 19-year-old college student accused of killing the seabirds, pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty and other charges in a Honolulu courtroom Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. (Marigold Zoll/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, Matt Ubell scoops up a load of cattle feed on his farm near Wheaton, Kan. Ubell is one of many farmers taking out government farm loans to make ends meet in a turbulent farm economy. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, Matt Ubell adds grain to feed as she prepares to feed cattle on his farm near Wheaton, Kan. Ubell is one of many farmers taking out government agriculture loans to make ends meet in a turbulent farm economy. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Rescue personnel transfer an accident victim by airboat down the Mississippi River, seen from the Franklin Avenue Bridge, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, in Minneapolis. Minneapolis fire department rescued a motorist after a car plunged down the Mississippi River bank. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
