So What Do You Do With The ... Poo ... In A Pit Latrine?
That's a problem in Bangladesh, where pit latrines have brought rates of open defecation down — but led to the dumping of 'fecal sludge' in waterways. A new study proposes a possible solution.
Bangladesh has done a great job of getting more toilets to more people. Now it needs to figure out how to empty them.
According to the World Bank, rates of "open defecation" (development jargon for pooing in public) in Bangladesh have dropped from 34 percent in 1990 to just 1 percent nationwide in 2015. Other surveys put the rates of open defecation at a slightly higher rate than 1 percent but still note that there's been a significant decline in the amount of human
