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latrine is a type of toilet or bathroom, often found in outdoor or rural areas. It is a simple structure or hole in the ground used for human waste disposal.
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They were on a mission trip building
latrines in rural Haiti when they realized how great the need for a new kind of diaper was.
Today, even former service chiefs are being made to account for fighting the money that was meant for insurgency but diverted and kept in
pit latrines.
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.
Campa says PIH will make exceptions and
build latrines for widows, people with AIDS, and other vulnerable groups.
These complex tunnel networks, which measure up to 13 meters across, feature multiple entrances and designated outside
latrine areas where the lizards go to defecate.
Concern's field teams mobilize communities to build their own household
latrines from locally available materials using the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach.
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.
He was a Brahmin [member of the highest Hindu caste] who devoted his life to saving untouchables [the lowest caste] from the horrible job of cleaning dry
latrines with their bare hands.
The artist challenges the vulnerability and durability of the human body by sitting for an hour in a humid
public latrine in the «East Village» of Beijing, where he lived at the time, covered in honey, fish sauce and swarming flies.
Diarrhoea can be prevented by breastfeeding, by immunizing all children against measles, by
using latrines, by keeping food and water clean, and by washing hands before touching food.
«Ten percent of the time you wound up
cleaning latrines, but the other 90 percent of the time I got to do amazing [stuff],» he said.
Building designated waste repositories
like latrines don't make waste disappear either.
Tickets are now available for the show on March 5
at Latrines Comedy Club, 530 Columbia St. in New Westminster.
And despite the depredations Jordanians had committed in the parts of post-1948 Jerusalem under their rule — including turning Jewish gravestones
into latrine pavements — relations between Israel and Jordan were far more rational than those between Israel and Egypt.
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).
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.
Double - occupancy tents and camping equipment (includes dining tent, kitchen tent, and
latrine tent)
The more sophisticated Malagasies who do
own latrines call it «going au natural».
Millions of gamers are marking November in their calendars, eagerly looking forward to squatting over a hastily -
dug latrine trench and shitting blood violently until they pass out and die.
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).
The government of Ghana is set to provide 200,000 household toilets and 20,000 institutional
latrines through the «Toilet for All»...
To conduct the study, disease ecologist Sara Weinstein of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and her team of undergraduates mapped out 50
raccoon latrines in the 60 - hectare Coal Oil Point Reserve, a coastal nature preserve in Santa Barbara, California.
Because the location of
crossover latrines was determined by the physical landscape, this suggests that the complexity of the physical environment plays an important role in determining their social behavior.
This also included a site visit to a school in the Dowa region of Central Malawi, where carbon finance has also supported the construction of
new latrines.
Now Mittens Rmoney will lose the election for sure and we'll never get our mid-space
latrine finished on Earth.
trying to liberate India's untouchables from their horrible job of manually cleaning
dry latrines, by setting up half a million public toilets in India.
They'd ride in convoys, dig
field latrines, serve guard duty, and whatever tasks that wouldn't put real Soldiers at risk.
The Ministry will provide 200,000 household toilets and 20,000
Institutional latrines to selected communities under the «Toilet for All» agenda in a bid meet the SDG on ending open defacation.
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.
Tippy Taps can be installed easily
near latrines, kitchens, and school classrooms.
[Adi Barocas et al., Coastal
latrine sites as social information hubs and drivers of river otter fission — fusion dynamics.]
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, was carried out using video cameras installed in the washing areas
outside latrines of four public schools in the sprawling Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.
Ferrets are
latrine animals, which means that they usually return to the same spot to eliminate.
But when space is tight, like in crowded Antananarivo, where families are forced to
share latrines, someone has to take out the trash.
In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit
latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.
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.
«When we used the pit
latrine before, and it rained, sometimes the water would come out,» Rartjarasoaniony tells me.
Again, the best way to circumvent human frustration with ferret
latrine location is to allow the ferret to choose the location and place the litter pan there.
The room measured about 3 by 4 metres,
including latrine space behind a waist - high partition wall.
In 2006 a jury returned a $ 6.5 million verdict in a civil suit against private contractor The Shaw Group after a 21 - year - old Army private in basic training was electrocuted after coming in contact with a
metal latrine.
The Romans are well known for introducing sanitation technology to Europe around 2,000 years ago, including public
multi-seat latrines with washing facilities, sewerage systems, piped drinking water from aqueducts, and heated public baths for washing.
It was not the most obvious business plan in a nation that used
squat latrines.
He also tried, unsuccessfully, to shut out the smell of the shit, which sloshed in the water that half - filled the
open latrine pits above him on the other side of the wire.