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 ...

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 ...

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

A quarter century after the end of apartheid, South African elementary schools still lack many basics, including safe toilets. The government says it's committed to addressing the problem. We're going ...

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, ...

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, ...

On Monday, 6 July 2026, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced that the Department of Basic Education had completed all pit-toilet eradication projects identified in the 2018 Sanitation ...

“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 ...

Acknowledging that pit latrines still exist in hinterland schools, Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai has stated that steps are being put in place to transform those. Speaking at her end of ...

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 ...

FOR adventurous travellers, it is merely an embarrassing nuisance. But among poor people diarrhoea is a killer. As many as half a million children are thought to die every year from enteric diseases, ...