Cholera is endemic, it said, and threatens to worsen without latrines and clean water.
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"Many of them do make serious inquiries from the families of grooms about latrines, " she said.
The stench was especially bad at night when they camped near their newly dug latrines.
In total, 43 percent of homes in the city had latrines on the ground floor, Trusler found.
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In 23 cases, however, the second story remains, and the same types of pipes lead to latrines.
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The health of people half a world away can be affected by whether those workers have latrines and wash-basins.
The Thames has been polluted for centuries: in 1383 Parliament taxed households whose latrines emptied into the river's tributaries.
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HUNTER-GAULT: But 13 year old Alice Maseko(ph) says she and many girls are concerned about being sexually assaulted in the latrines.
Think of it as a text based 311 for girls school latrines.
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The government is preparing for the monsoon, digging ditches and improving latrines.
Earlier O'Connor had paid to build latrines for a school nearby in Laos, but this time he set his sights on a bigger project.
Improving sanitation is about breaking habits as much as building latrines.
Directed to the "Olympic village, " they would find a vast, partly tented, partly open-to-the-skies encampment, with inadequate water supplies, heaps of stinking refuse and huge improvised latrines.
At nearby Vallipunam, tourists view the torture chambers with their smelly, open latrines, and walls on which inmates scratched poignant notes, many of them expressing faith in God.
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As one example, we must ensure that schools are located where girls can reach them safely and that every school has separate and functioning latrines for girls and boys.
The government estimates that less than 30 percent of villagers have access to latrines, which poses serious health risks and increases the threat of deadly diseases like typhoid and malaria.
The idea is to build a mobile tool to collect data through toilet ID mechanism to identify, track, and resolve problems around latrine maintenance in schools (or other public latrines).
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But it is urgently calling on the UNHCR and aid organisations operating inside the camp to redouble their efforts to provide shelter, clean water, latrines, and food at minimum humanitarian standards.
By offering families a rebate to offset the cost of latrines and by offering communes a conditional cash transfer when they reach sanitation adoption goals, we make sure change happens quickly.
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Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.
Nor do they have to pay for sanitation, because latrines are often provided by the aid agencies, or clean water, since that is often supplied by the agencies or by the government.
But at a nearby school, we are shown what Calacharo says is the norm, a small cluster of putrid open-pit latrines made of mud bricks worn to mere shells by rain and lack of repair.
So far the grassroots group has completed about 20 low-cost clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects, including hand dug wells, rehabilitation of existing wells and construction of communal latrines, that have benefited at least 7, 000 people.
Now, President Obama is hoping to capitalize on our ignorance of these folks and the reality of their lives in uniform - notably, the phenomenon known as "forced intimacy" that is inherent in communal bunkrooms, showers, latrines, shipboard sleeping compartments and foxholes.
Due to the action plans designed during the sessions of the circles, learners have achieved many changes in their surroundings, such as building latrines and meeting halls, cleaning streets and houses, improving the hygiene habits of community members, including non-APLICA-learners, and improving access to drinking water.
And wonderful, well-intentioned endeavors to build wells or latrines in less-developed communities often have only ephemeral benefit: there is no one to fix them after the college or church group leaves, with little more lasting relationship than a few snapshots and a meaningful story to tell.
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