The death of a six-year-old girl who drowned after falling into a pit toilet in Limpopo has ignited a fierce constitutional rebuke.

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 ...

Last Friday, a six-year-old child went missing in the rural village of Nkuzana in Limpopo and by the time she was found, the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human rights groups are pushing the South African government to do away with the sub-standard facilities in schools forever. GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South ...

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 ...

A 35-year-old man, renowned locally for his expertise in digging pit latrines, died instantly Tuesday after falling into a pit he had been contracted to unblock at Bezalel Preparatory and Primary ...

Teachers at Kiwenda C/U Primary School in Galilaya sub-county, Kayunga District, have taken matters into their own hands after being frustrated with the lack of a pit latrine in the school. Despite ...