Nyakhot Deng washes her hands in front of the latrine she built herself in the Tierkidi camp for South Sudanese refugees in the western Ethiopia region of Gambella. Dagmawi Tadesse/Oxfam To improve ...

“One spade of lime stone (calcium carbonate) should be used, but most people in villages can’t afford such,” he says. At Orbit Chemicals and Equipment, fumigating a latrine will need ...

Peter Maeris a White House correspondent for CBS News. It was a first in my more than 22 years on the White House beat: coverage of a presidential latrine inspection. It happened yesterday at Fort ...

Two hundred and thirty-six million years ago, an ancient herbivore took a dump that would blow 21-century minds. You see, ...

To construct a basic pit latrine, you don’t need engineers, special equipment or much money. Dig a deep hole set back at least 50 feet from drinking water (in some villages a simple six-foot ...

Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead Sea settlement of Qumran confirm the existence of a strange communal latrine -- located at a remote distance, conforming with extreme hygiene ...

To understand the baffling reality of how hard it is to "Follow the Money" when it comes to aid to Haiti, it helps to look at -- of all things-- latrines. In Haiti, latrines are almost as ...

Collaborating with a U.S.-based nonprofit and Hope Revival Children’s Organization (HRCO), an NGO partner in rural Tanzania, Gilliam and Perez worked to improve the design of an eco-flush latrine that ...

Hamilton, ON, Dec. 6, 2024 – A McMaster researcher has uncovered evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium, and while the finding may induce queasiness in ...