That's a problem in Bangladesh, where pit latrines have brought rates of open defecation down — but led to the dumping of 'fecal sludge' in... Bangladesh has done a great job of getting more toilets ...

A 40-year-old woman in Washington is recovering from a truly crappy experience. On Tuesday, April 19, the woman fell headfirst into a pit latrine at the trailhead for Mount Walker on the Olympic ...

Last month, Avethandwa Kunene, 6, a Grade R learner at Umzila Primary School in Dannhauser, KwaZulu-Natal, drowned after falling into an underground septic tank at his school. For Ferrial Adam, the ...

According to Francis de los Reyes III, the problem with World Toilet Day is that it focuses almost entirely on toilets. "Toilets are only the beginning of the process, assuming you even have a toilet, ...

Police have launched investigations into the murder of a boy who had been kidnapped from his home in Mubende District, with the child's body later recovered from a pit latrine.According to Lameck ...

Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems globally, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the Millennium Development Goals ...

Education authorities must speed up the process of eliminating pit toilets at government schools to prevent unnecessary injuries to pupils, according to experts. The experts were reacting to a recent ...

The empty field behind Mahlodumela primary school in Chebeng village doesn't look like much. It's an anonymous stretch of scrubby grass, punctuated by a lonely metal goal post. But what happened in ...

The water closet and pit latrine argument has long been a controversial issue long before I was born. Thankfully, experiments carried out on the differences between squatting (Pit latrine) and sitting ...

Growing up in an American town and attending first-world schools, I learned that an organism must have food, water, and shelter in order to survive. The need to eliminate waste did not make the list, ...

“You need to safely contain the human excreta and keep it free from flies,” says Kamal Kar, a development specialist from Kolkata, India, who devised an approach for encouraging people to build and ...