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Squat toilet (flush toilet) with water cistern for flushing (Cape Town, South Africa) A squat toilet (or squatting toilet) is a toilet used by squatting, rather than sitting. This means that the posture for defecation and for female urination is to place one foot on each side of the toilet drain or hole and to squat over it.
Pour-flush pit latrine schematic showing squatting pan with water seal. In a pour-flush pit latrine, a squatting or pedestal toilet with a water seal (U-trap or siphon) is used over one or two offset pits. These types of toilets do require water for flushing but otherwise share many of the same characteristics as simple pit latrines.
An illustration of a man squatting on the squat toilet. Humans mostly use one of two types of defecation postures to defecate: squatting and sitting.People use the squatting postures when using squat toilets or when defecating in the open in the absence of toilets.
Example of a squat toilet in Rome, Italy. In many parts of Asia, people traditionally use the toilet in a squatting position. This applies to defecation and urination by males and females. Therefore, homes and public washrooms have squat toilets, with the toilet bowl installed in the floor. This has the advantages of not needing an additional ...
Such a toilet pan is also called a "squatting pan". A squat toilet may use a water seal and therefore be a flush toilet, or it can be without a water seal and therefore be a dry toilet. The term "squat" refers only to the expected defecation posture and not any other aspects of toilet technology, such as whether it is water flushed or not.
The squatting defecation posture involves squatting by standing with the knees and hips sharply bent and the bare buttocks suspended near the ground. Squat toilets are designed to facilitate this posture and are common in various parts of the world. When not urinating into a toilet, squatting is the easiest way for a female to direct the urine ...
A composting toilet consists of two elements: a place to sit or squat and a collection/composting unit. [3] The composting unit consists of four main parts: [2] storage or composting chamber; a ventilation unit to ensure that the degradation process in the toilet is predominantly aerobic and to vent odorous gases
Squatting pan of urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Urine diversion takes advantage of the anatomy of the human body, which excretes urine and feces separately. [ 2 ] In a UDDT, the urine is drained via a basin with a small hole near the front of the user interface, while feces fall through a larger drop-hole at the ...