Sentences with phrase «like latrines»

Building designated waste repositories like latrines don't make waste disappear either.

Oh and our house doesn't smell like a latrine like some of my friends» do, near trash day.

If the plush carpet in the quiet corner of your living room smells like a latrine, how is your cat supposed to know it's unacceptable to you?

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.)

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 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 researchers found that the otters performed more signaling behaviors like sniffing, body rubbing, or urinating, than social behaviors, like grooming or play, at what they called crossover latrines, which were located at the junctions of water bodies.

To prehistoric dogs our middens, latrines and village dumps must have appeared like manna from heaven.!

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.

Otherwise, try putting a crumpled towel or a food bowl in the well - cleaned corner, making it look more like a bedroom or kitchen than a latrine.

The Chinese artist Zhang Huan started out doing ostentatiously ascetic performances, like sitting naked, covered in honey and fish oil in a fly - infested public latrine.

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.

If conventional toilet options like flush toilets or pit latrines are desired by the community and appropriate for location in question — then there is no reason to look further and those are the toilet solutions to be implemented by the NGO.

But when space is tight, like in crowded Antananarivo, where families are forced to share latrines, someone has to take out the trash.