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 ...

GENEVA, November 19 (UNHCR) - Dominique Porteaud is UNHCR's senior water and sanitation officer. The French national, who has forestry and public health engineering degrees, visits refugees camps and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Relief officials are scrambling to confront a sanitation crisis that could spread malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases throughout the chaotic camps ...

Creating sustainable water and sanitation solutions in Kobe refugee camp. As an engineer working in the five refugee camps located in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, UNHCR Innovation Fellow, Samuel Gonzaga was ...

Jeff Chapin first learned of Cambodia’s sanitation problem when the head of the not-for-profit International Development Enterprises, Cambodia, emailed Ideo seeking help. Chapin was told that ...

Fifty-year-old Md Karim (pseudonym), who lives in the Unchiprang Rohingya Refugee Camp in Teknaf, collects water in some 15 jerry cans from a perennially crowded collection point on a daily basis.

Altagrace Nicolas says she has always been attentive to the care of herself and her children and is confident that she can keep cholera at bay. Photo: Toby Adamson/Oxfam Armed with a yellow tool box, ...

It's probably safe to say that scrubbing and bleaching toilets isn't everyone's (if anyone's) cup of tea. But a group of scientists may have answered our prayers once and for all - by developing a ...

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, ...

The latrine was about 16 inches high, with a smaller 3- to 4-inch-deep trough for clean water located nearby. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Archaeologists excavating an ancient theater beneath the ...