cnn's paula newton has more from the capital of port-au-prince. >> reporter: there is no delicate way to put this. port-au-prince looks and smells like a dump, because it is. ten months after the earthquake, the city has degenerated into a filthy cauldron of water, garbage and human waste. the garbage situation has always been a problem here, but now no one pays any attention to where they dump it and the government makes virtually no effort to pick it up. >> don't you think haitians deserve better than this? it's -- >> we got used to it. we got used to it. everybody grow up in this country. you get used to it. >> reporter: but the stakes are higher now as cholera stocks the city, these are the conditions that are sobering health experts. desperate for water, collected from a pipe right next to a pile of burning waste. this central canal cuts through the middle of the city and garbage of all descriptions flows right through it, and this is where it ends up. right down the canal and piled up, tons of garbage just laying waste here in the canal that no one ever seems capable of collecti

cnn's paula newton in port-au-prince. >> there is no delicate way to put this. port-au-prince looks and smells like a dump because it is. 10 months after the earthquake, the city has generated into a filthy calderon of water, garbage and human waste. the garbage situation has always been a problem here. but now no one pays any attention to where they dump it and the government makes virtually no effort to pick it up. >> don't you think haitians deserve better than this? >> we got used to it. we got used to it. everybody grow up in this country. we got used to it. >> but the stakes are higher now. as cholera stalks the city, these are the conditions that worry health expert. look, patients desperate for water collect it at a pipe right next to a burning collection of waste. >> the city is like an open garbage pit. this is the central canal that cuts right through the city. garbage of all descriptions flows right there it. and this is where it ends up, right down the canal and piled up, tons of garbage, just laying waste here in the canal that no one ever seems ca