The basic education department says it has completed 98% of the pit latrine eradication projects identified in 2018.

A smart toilet design introduced in rural Cambodia was supposed to change lives—keeping families safe and protecting the ...

Made by the toilet manufacturer American Standard, this “trap door” seals off open pit latrines that are a major source of disease in the developing world. The most advanced sanitation solutions for ...

One of the less sanitary aspects of life in Jesus' day has come into play in the debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they lived and how they died. The latest evidence comes from a site ...

With the world set to mark the World Toilet Day on Thursday, Kenya still ranks poorly in toilet use. Latest statistics show that 5.6 million people have no latrine at all and defecate in the open. The ...

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, ...

ROSE GEORGE’S “The Big Necessity” should become a classic in the limited literary annals of coprology. George, who is British, is an ebullient descendant of the virtuous Victorians, including Thomas ...

A five-year-old girl has drowned in a pit latrine in South Africa after relieving herself between school lessons, in an incident campaigners described as "horrific". Police launched a search operation ...

With the world set to mark the World Toilet Day on Thursday, Kenya still ranks poorly in toilet use. Latest statistics show that 5.6 million people have no latrine at all and defecate in the open. The ...