Sentences with phrase «lack of a toilet»

According to the DHS, out of four people in the Upper East Region, three defecate outside due to lack of toilet facilities in many homes in the region.

«The issue of a lack of toilet facilities for our staff who are on the road all day is of course a sensitive one, particularly in rural areas where there are far fewer amenities,» chief executive Chris Bocock said.

Union members at a South Side high school donned hazmat suits Friday to dramatize the poor conditions, which they say include rodents, leaky pipes, tiles falling from the ceiling, and a lack of toilet paper and soap.

The online survey of 848 staff for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers suggested the main cause was a lack of toilet training.

Previously the reserve was used (and still is occasionally) for overnight camping but the FD has prohibited this, primarily due to the lack of toilet or other waste disposal facilities.

Conditions that keep girls out of school, ranging from a lack of toilets to the demand for their labor gathering firewood and water, also contribute to elevated birth rates.

United Nations agencies estimate that the persistent lack of toilets and sewage treatment leads to the deaths of some 700,000 children a year from diarrhea and other avoidable ailments linked to fecal contamination.

Thus, for instance, there's a letter by Charles Bukowski written to a reader who had told him that the library in Nijmegen had removed one of his books from their shelves, and a 1909 letter from Okhil Chandra Sen written to the railway office in West Bengal detailing the disastrous consequence of the lack of toilets on the trains, which letter was the stimulus needed to introduce those conveniences on Indian trains.

Lack of toilets is not a problem unique to Madagascar.

I would love to pick out those things and perhaps a new faucet and light fixture in our powder room so our friends stop teasing me about the lack of a toilet paper holder!

Not exact matches

The world needs a better toilet — one that can work for the millions of people in developing countries who lack running water and sanitary waste - removal systems.

During the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, these two rooms accommodated refugees from more vulnerable neighborhoods, who stepped over the sleeping family at night on their way to the toilet that could not be flushed for lack of water.

Try to imagine, for instance, the interpersonal friction and lack of privacy which results from cramming two parents and six children into one, cockroach - infested room with a primitive kitchen and a toilet shared with three other families.

Also, I did not suffer from a lack of training in homemaking — both of my parents taught me how to do laundry, how to balance a cheque book, how to manage money, how to wash floor, make supper, cook a turkey dinner, clean a toilet and generally run a household.

to each their own, though the things she listed are not what christianity is supposed to be about, for lack of a better word anyone who believes in christ is christian, you can think the bible is delicious edible nom nom nom food or toilet paper and not believe anything more but still believe in christ and the teachings of love and still be considered a christian.

If you can't afford the sprayer or you can't install one (lack of know - how, fussy landlord), I suggest getting a plastic sports bottle with a pop - up top, and keep it filled with water next to the toilet.

If you can handle the lack of privacy, let your little kids see that Mummy and Daddy can get it in the toilet!

This is due to intense changes in hormones, the body physically changing, and a general sense of lack of control over eating, toileting, and exercising practices thanks to the growing baby.

The scandal highlighted the lack of oversight of all kinds of contracts — from after - school programs to the purchase of toilet paper.

Apart from welfare issues, the lecturers also lamented lack of well equipped laboratories, toilets for students and poor condition of roads in the two polytechnics and two colleges of education owned by the state.

«Nigerian Police live in places not fit for animals,» she said, adding that some of the barracks lacked basic facilities such as bathrooms and toilets.

Once introduced, the disease exploded because of the lack of safe drinking water and toilets.

From the archaeological impact of dug - up dung to early toilets in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China to the devastating effects a lack of hygienic waste disposal had in early London, it seems as though every bowels - related question possible has been answered.

• Lack of appropriate toilet area.

I mentioned Camp Five and its secret unit, Camp Five Echo, where the noncompliant prisoners are housed in solitary (the military calls it «single - cell operations» and refuses to acknowledge the existence of Five Echo, where, according to detainee lawyers, cells lack sinks or toilets — they contain only faucets and a hole in the floor).

But, I have always been surprised at the lack of modernization of the toilets at so many restaurants, cafes, and even hotels.

For the comfortable beds and linens, air - con and speedy WiFi, you may be willing to overlook the quirks stemming from a lack of maintenance of an ageing hotel like leaky faucets, gurgling toilets, in room safe that needs batteries, broken electrical outlet, out lights and gangs of mosquitoes that obviously found their way in while housekeeping was doing up the room.

The bathroom is large enough for a separate shower and tub, but lacks the tub and the clear glass doors defeat the purpose of separate shower and toilet rooms!

The house AC is lacking, we ran out of gas during the middle of cooking an expensive meal, and the water stopped working a couple of times (issues expected on a small island) but really inconvenient with 11 people and toilets that wouldn't flush for 6 hours for a couple of days.

While the lack of a proper door between bed and toilet could be a turnoff for some, the bathrooms sure are classy.

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!».

Mobile has perhaps been lacking the great Spelunky - like game that could at least imitate one of the best indie games of all time while being something you can play on the toilet while at work.

But, as water - quality campaigners and sanitation specialists are saying today — World Toilet Day — billions of people, mainly in the poor South, are held back by a lack of this basic benefit.

I'm dealing with a disaster of microscopic dimensions, being among the 200,000 households in the Northeast still lacking electricity, heat and flushing toilets three days after an astonishing dump of snow.

Every community that lacks an ample (foreseeably inexhaustible) supply of freshwater should consider rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling and encouraging the adoption of compost toileting.

Doubt and lack of acceptance has also frustrated US efforts to test urine separating toilets.

Perhaps its because of our monkey roots — their lack of inhibition when it comes to handling their own filth must be lurking in us somewhere — that many of us find poo jokes and toilet humor so funny even as we, cough, mature.

Even when the rules changed, many law firms and chambers still cited a lack of female toilets as a justifiable barrier to employing women for many years.

Limitations include lack of information on hygiene, actual use of water and toilets, and contamination and infection.

Certain parenting styles, such as inconsistent scheduling of activities and lack of responsiveness to the child's physical needs, could lead to ineffective toilet training strategies.

I'd never need to brave a public toilet lacking a lock on the door and containing those toilet paper that resemble squares of baking paper your wee slides off (if, in fact, there is toilet paper at all).

The shelves above the toilet make up for lack of counter space, because we use the shelves for anything that would have been normally put on the counter.