Sentences with phrase «latrines in»

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.

A 2,000 - year - old latrine in China provides the first hard evidence that people carried diseases long distances along the ancient trading route.

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.

Time - lapse video shows the construction of a latrine in rural Pakistan — from before the hole is dug until the doors are hung on each «stall.»

Not exact matches

(In India alone more than 600 million citizens don't have access to toilets or latrines, and open defecation leads to contaminated water and chronic — sometimes deadly — health issues, like diarrhea.)

They'd ride in convoys, dig field latrines, serve guard duty, and whatever tasks that wouldn't put real Soldiers at risk.

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

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.

We had a pleasant interview with the managers and expressed our surprise that a company so efficient and successful would pay such low wages and be so negligent in providing the essential human services of housing, latrines and water.

But doing things like psychosocial support for families and children to help them recover kind of mentally and emotionally from what they've experienced, cash - for - work programs that will do things like building latrines and bathing facilities in the camps, which is a practical need but also does help if the rains come or hurricanes come.

The same brook was surveyed again this year but this time he found 12 latrines, four burrows and numerous piles of feeding remains, all positive field signs of water voles active in the area.

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.

Rather, Mellor told GMB today: «Damian Green is the sort of guy who under Mrs Thatcher would have been the minister of state for latrines and would have lived in total obscurity.

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.

The rest of the 9,000 residents share a public latrine built in 1958.

Told he had to go back to his unit, he tried to drown himself in a latrine: Better dead in a pool of feces than back to the trenches.

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.

It would mean you wouldn't have to pop home if you were out shopping in town, you could have used the public latrines, which would have been a good idea.

(It's thought the latrines may play a role in marking territory.)

The find comes from a 2,000 - year - old latrine that had first been excavated in 1992.

The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled «Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire.»

He's the author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines, and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations and he's just published a paper in the Journal of Parasitology titled «Human Parasites in the Roman World: Health Consequences of Conquering an Empire.»

In the latrine, archaeologists found used hygiene sticks wrapped with cloth.

Raccoon roundworm infection in humans is rare but can be deadly, so the researchers observed the latrines from a distance and wore special shoes which they bagged before going home.

When male rivals were sensed in the area, lemurs visited their latrine more often, marking the trees using specialised glands.

It was not the most obvious business plan in a nation that used squat latrines.

Maybe he'll come around and be photographed in front of a latrine.

In those days nitre was collected from the walls of cesspits and latrines, or from the leachings of manure and soil, and was used to make gunpowder.

A 14,300 - year - old latrine found in the Paisley Caves of Oregon may have been left by humans belonging to the first wave.

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.

7 Excited by such findings, in 2007 British - born entrepreneur Jasper Lawrence flew to Cameroon and walked barefoot near some latrines.

By investigating a latrine, an otter can sniff out just how many otters there are in the area, and who they might be.

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

Thanks to all that communicative signaling, these crossover latrines were also more likely to host fusion events, resulting in large aggregations of up to eighteen otters.

A recent survey in several Indian states found that in 40 % of households with toilets, at least one family member continued to defecate in the open, even if the toilet or latrine was brand new, and free.

By reducing pollution, digging basic latrines and other measures, contaminated water can be avoided in the first place.

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).

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.

Many of these studies relied on microscopes and chemical or DNA tests to detect parasites and their eggs in soil from grave sites and public latrines.

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.»

Guilherme Gomes of the University of São Paulo in Brazil and his colleagues placed groups of 50 latrine blowflies (Chrysomya megacephala) in transparent cylinders.

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.

While the densely populated slum surrounding Lima has a districtwide sewage system and modern wastewater treatment plant, the village in El Salvador has composting latrines.

Using wildlife cameras, we documented over 40 potentially susceptible vertebrate species in latrines and adjacent habitat.

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.

Before it all ends — not a moment too soon, if you ask me — prissy scoutmaster Ed Norton loses his pest control spray, his latrine - inspection detail and his short pants, while the runaway children land in another camp where the mentally challenged Jason Schwartzman enters.

In no time at all, she's cleaning the latrines with her electric toothbrush.

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.

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.