A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the...
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A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground. Urine and feces enter the pit through...
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the building to collapse. Most of the attendants fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid...
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Animal latrines (latrine areas, animal toilets, defecation sites) are places where wildlife animals habitually defecate and urinate. Many kinds of animals...
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Pig toilet (redirect from Pig latrine)
A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole...
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Toilet god (redirect from Latrine spirit)
A toilet god is a deity associated with latrines and toilets. Belief in toilet gods – a type of household deity – has been known from both modern and ancient...
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Latrine is a poem by the German poet Günter Eich. It was published in the journal Der Ruf in 1946 and included in Eich's first post-war poetry collection...
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Dry toilet (redirect from Dry latrine)
(e.g. wood ash, sawdust, or quick lime) to cover excreta after use. Pit latrine – excluding pour-flush versions with water seal Urine-diverting dry toilet...
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Bucket toilet (redirect from Bucket latrine)
portability of bucket latrines can make them a useful part of an appropriate emergency response, especially where pit latrines cannot be isolated from...
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Toilet (section Pit latrine)
pits, in which case it is called a "pour flush pit latrine" or a "twin pit pour flush to pit latrine". It can also be connected to a septic tank. Flush...
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Chrysomya megacephala (redirect from Oriental latrine fly)
Chrysomya megacephala, more commonly known as the oriental latrine fly or oriental blue fly, is a member of the family Calliphoridae (blowflies). It is...
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system Flush / pour-flush to a pit latrine Pit latrine with slab Ventilated improved pit latrine (abbreviated as VIP latrine) Composting toilet Sanitation...
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List of countries by access to improved sanitation facilities (redirect from Countries using latrines)
to a septic system, flush/pour-flush to a pit latrine, ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, pit latrine with slab, composting toilet and/or some special...
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Zigu (Chinese: 紫姑; lit. 'the Lady of the Latrine or the Third Daughter of the Latrine'), also known as Maogu, is a goddess representing toilets in Chinese...
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Outhouse (section Pit latrines)
a main building, which covers a toilet. This is typically either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be...
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contaminants, for example fertilizers, wastewater or human excreta from pit latrines.: 611 Droughts reduce river dilution capacities and groundwater levels...
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Blair toilet (redirect from Blair Latrine)
The Blair Toilet (a.k.a. Blair Latrine) is a pit toilet designed in the 1970s. It was a result of large-scale projects to improve rural sanitation in...
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sergeant places Stockdale on full-time latrine duty. Stockdale believes his new position of "P.L.O." (Permanent Latrine Orderly) to be a promotion. A company...
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also known as a "sponge on a stick", was a utensil found in ancient Roman latrines, consisting of a wooden stick (Greek: ξύλον, xylon) with a sea sponge (Greek:...
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Fannia scalaris (redirect from Latrine fly)
Fannia scalaris, also known as the latrine fly, is a fly species in the Fanniidae family. This species is smaller and more slender than the house fly...
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drinking water source 16 Main source of lighting 17 Access to latrine 18 Type of latrine 19 Waste water outlet 20 Availability of bathing facility 21 Availability...
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Sanitation in ancient Rome (section Public latrines)
services to residents of Rome. Although there were many sewers, public latrines, baths and other sanitation infrastructure, disease was still rampant....
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described as dungeons or oubliettes were in fact water-cisterns or even latrines. An example of what might be popularly termed an "oubliette" is the particularly...
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pit latrines) without mechanical equipment and without personal protective equipment. These workers are "scooping out feces from ‘dry’ latrines and overflowing...
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example as in the successive pejoration of the terms bog-house, privy-house, latrine, water closet, toilet, bathroom, and restroom (US English). When a term...
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confined living spaces for 22–23 hours a day, inmates are not provided with latrines and are forced to defecate into plastic bags. These conditions were considered...
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EToilet Flush Freezing Head (boat) Hudo (Scouting) Incinerating Intelligent Latrine Low-flush On-board Passenger train Pay Pig Pit Portable Potty Public Sanisette...
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A female oriental latrine fly (Chrysomya megacephala) feeds on feces...
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to miss his sheath and accidentally run the Sheriff through. The witch Latrine, Prince John's cook and adviser, saves him by giving him a magical Life...
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proceedings against Winters over Winters' failure to carry out conflicting latrine inspection orders Sobel had given him. This caused the sentiment against...
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