Sentences with phrase «pit latrines»

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.

Image 2: Domed Pit Latrine Slab kit, designer: Martin Fisher.

But most dig pit latrines which are buried as needed.

And the statistics on deep and unremitting poverty speak for themselves: 250,000 women dying from causes relating to pregnancy each year; 330 million people without access to safe water; 565 million people without access even to a basic pit latrine.

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.

It is instructive because only 60 years ago, Japan was a nation of squatting pit latrines.

An ideal solution would be «a modern equivalent of the chamber pot,» said Strash, one that would also tackle the cultural issues of handling human waste and move communities away from using open pit latrines.

I»M STANDING in a festering slum: there are no sewers, no drains, the communal pit latrines are overflowing, and the alleyways are too narrow for conventional latrine - emptying trucks.

Most schools received simple pit latrines, which did not require piped water.

This newspaper story describes the consequences for slum dwellers in Kampala, Uganada, when pit latrines are too scarce or pricey.

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.

Our toilets are particularly well suited for locations where pit latrines and flush toilets fail - especially flood - prone areas.

Some of the startups that pitched include HAIL - A-HUSTLE, an e-commerce platform that seeks to develop business potential through its diverse products, and Usafi Sanitation, a startup that wants to improve sanitation and improve human dignity by providing schools and communities with proper sanitation by installing eco-friendly toilets and eliminating pit latrines.

«I was used to pit latrines and no running water.»

These trucks empty Bangalore's million septic tanks and pit latrines, where the majority of its 10 million inhabitants relieve themselves.

In high - groundwater locations, if there is not enough of a soil buffer between the bottom of the pit latrine and the highest seasonal groundwater level — then there is risk of groundwater contamination.

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.

However, there are locations where flush toilets and pit latrines are not appropriate.

Eleonore Rartjarasoaniony — a 47 - year - old mother, daughter and small - shop owner in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo — stands in the middle of her yard, watching two young men in colourful overalls and rubber boots service her new waterless Loowatt toilet, which replaced her pit latrine a few months ago.

«When we used the pit latrine before, and it rained, sometimes the water would come out,» Rartjarasoaniony tells me.