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 ...

Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube has announced the completion of all pit-toilet eradication projects identified in ...

A new study sheds light on the complex microbial ecosystems found in pit latrines, which are used by billions of people around the world. The findings are relevant for efforts to both improve public ...

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, ...

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, ...

The basic education department says it has completed 98% of the pit latrine eradication projects identified in 2018. However, the bigger problem is they have not yet counted or investigated new pit ...

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 ...

More than a year after the Ministry of Education’s survey of schools with pit latrines was made public, the promise to address this issue seems to have stalled and currently, according to reports, the ...

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 ...

The Department of Basic Education says it has eradicated the pit latrine backlog in schools.