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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 Rhodesia under UDI at the Blair Research Institute, and then deployed further during the 1980s after Zimbabwean Independence. There was mass deployment of the toilet design in the rural areas of ...
Portable toilet. A portable or mobile toilet (colloquial terms: thunderbox, porta-john, porta-potty or portaloo) is any type of toilet that can be moved around, some by one person, some by mechanical equipment such as a truck and crane. Most types do not require any pre-existing services or infrastructure, such as sewerage, and are completely ...
Dignified Mobile Toilets (DMT) is a mobile public toilet system created in 1992 by Isaac Durojaiye. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Known by the slogan " shit business is serious business! "; [ 3 ] it was the first in Nigeria , initially conceived as a solution to providing human comfort during outdoor parties, events and other social gatherings. [ 4 ]
Sanisette. Sanisette (French pronunciation: [saniˈzɛt]) is a registered trademark for a self-contained, self-cleaning, unisex, public toilet pioneered by the French company JCDecaux. These toilets (and other similar toilets) are a common sight in several major cities of the world, but they are perhaps most closely associated with the city of ...
Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo. The area is generally flat with occasional hills ("koppies" in Afrikaans), and the general vegetation is Highveld grassland.
The United Nations states that improved sanitation facilities "ensure hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact." [3] The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation of WHO and UNICEF has defined improved sanitation as follows: flush toilet, [4] connection to a piped sewer system, connection to a septic system ...
The World Toilet Organization (WTO) is a global non-profit organization whose goal is to improve toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide. It was founded in 2001 [ 1 ] with 15 members and has now grown to 151 member organizations in 53 countries. [ 2 ] The WTO is also the organizer of the World Toilet Summit, the Urgent Run and initiated the ...
PITTSBURGH ― The Pittsburgh Potty pilot project is down the sink. City officials ended the planned six-month test project where two temporary public restroom trailers were opened in Downtown ...