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, ...

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the worst problem.

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 ...

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 ...

A man from a Kathaka Village in Kirinyaga Central was incensed when his mum refused to give him ‘something small’ for helping her retrieve Sh5,000 that she had accidentally dropped into a pit latrine.

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 production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung heroes ...

It was 17-months ago that the Limpopo Department of Education demolished dangerous pit toilets at Mabila and Dzivhani primary ...

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 ...