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 ...

Visitors to some of the more rustic forest preserves in DuPage County still have to use the nearest pit latrine when nature calls. If that sounds like an iffy proposition, relief is in sight. The ...

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 ...

Budaka District officials will enforce the Public Health Act to compel each household to own a pit-latrine. Those who do not comply will be penalised. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans ...

More than 30 years into democracy, the department of basic education noted that pit latrines continue to exist.

Waterfall Glen has oak-maple woodlands, prairies, ravines and views of the Des Plaines River. One of the most popular and rugged forest preserves in DuPage County also lacks some modern creature ...

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

A 60-year-old man, Malam Danjuma, his son, Ibrahim, 35, and Aminu Gaye, also 35, died in a pit latrine while trying to recover a cellphone at Yar’Gwanda village in Tsanyawa Local Government in Kano ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Police say they saved a newborn from a pit latrine in a Namibian village, days after a local charity said 40 fetuses and infants are left to die each month. Police spokesman ...