Sentences with phrase «as latrine»

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

I remember a prior Dot Earth article in which it came to light that people used local beaches as latrines where the shit simply lay on the top of the sand.

Not exact matches

Get back to handing out mints in the latrine, as your stinky posts are more suited to it.

Primary school development includes additional infrastructure such as canteen, borehole, latrines, solar energy or teacher housing

Diarrhoea can be prevented through exclusive breastfeeding, improved weaning practices, measles immunization, use of latrines, washing hands (the baby's as well), keeping water and food clean, washing with soap before touching food and by sanitary disposal of stools.

The CLTS model, which encourages communities to use local materials to construct latrines was adopted in 2015 and triggered the certification of 15 communities as open defecation free, with 42 more being certified in 2016.

As the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. day, President Trump's recent remarks where he allegedly compared certain countries to outdoor latrines is sparking debate over race relations and whether the President is racist.

And animals such as lizards and bobcats, for which raccoon feces is neither food nor a risk, treated the latrines no differently than any other place, the team reports in Oikos.

The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).

Chrysomya megacephala, a blowfly known as the oriental latrine fly, is among the first and most abundant species of invertebrates arriving at mammal carcasses in tropical forests of peninsular Malaysia.

One study in the Journal conducted by researchers at the CDC finds that even relatively modest improvements — such as providing more latrines and community water pipes and disinfecting water with chlorine — could over the next two decades prevent up to 78,567 cases of cholera.

You probably don't think of someone else's bathroom as a big social scene, but for many rainforest animals, an ocelot's latrine is the place to be.

In other words, the otters see latrines as a place to exchange information, a sort of central marketplace.

THE latrines and waste dumps of ancient Crete may have served as a source of agricultural fertiliser, according to a new chemical analysis.

The waste that was examined included collections from drains as well as 10 latrines and cesspits, which yielded mineralized and charred food waste coming from kitchens and excrement.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Dr Piers Mitchell brought together evidence of parasites in ancient latrines, human burials and «coprolites» — or fossilised faeces — as well as in combs and textiles from numerous Roman Period excavations across the Roman Empire.

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Krasinski sets himself up to fail, but I couldn't even feel that good about saying, «Well, at least you tried,» because he makes so many choices I found excruciating: A Greek chorus made up of two guys talking about the female psyche drift in and out of the pastiches; a powerful monologue by Frankie Faison about the humiliating life of his father (a restroom attendant) is intercut with images of the father as a young man standing in the latrine, proudly standing stock - still in his white ice cream suit, while a dialogue ensues between the father of the past and the boy of the present that folds time in the most obvious, theatrical way you could think of.

Much better to show him taking the powdered waste in the latrine and reconstituting it with water, so as to make manure for his plantings.

He plays his big scene with Dennis Haysbert, better than I've ever seen him as a major who savors his power, who speaks with relish about the texture of the bowel movement he just dumped into a latrine that Swofford is forced to empty.

Cats may guard, block or intimidate other cats at an entry and exit point as this may be the only possible access to the only available latrine site.

There are some flaws to this approach as many cats that like to use the flushing model will perch on the rim, something that is no longer possible when converting this model into a den - style latrine.

But most dig pit latrines which are buried as needed.

The game has a playful sense of humour, and whilst the writing is unlikely to have your sides splitting, it'll certainly raise a wry smile from time to time such as when your troops can't join you for the next battle because they're queuing for the toilet due to a lack of latrines, or upon completing a level to be told «They took some arrows to the knees!».

Huan is known as a radical performance artist whose work is often based on his own body, such as the 1994 work 12 Square Meters, in which he squatted naked in a public latrine for an hour while flies swarmed around him.

In flood - prone and high groundwater locations, double - vault latrines (also known as aboveground or EcoSan composting latrines) are the default option.

As obsolescence set in, stepwells were ignored by their communities, became garbage dumps and latrines, while others were repurposed as storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decaAs obsolescence set in, stepwells were ignored by their communities, became garbage dumps and latrines, while others were repurposed as storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decaas storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decay.

During an organic dinner, Petersen discussed how raised funds helped support initiatives such as composting latrines and solar - powered community lighting; they have built 100 homes and have a goal of reaching 500.

See innovations in shelter, water and transport, such designs as Domed Pit Latrine Slab kit by Martin Fisher, will help with health issues with the concrete lid creating a tight seal to keep the smell in and the flies out; and the wire handle heats up from sunlight, killing germs and reducing contamination.