“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 ...

This research combines perspectives from behavioral science and engineering to 1) describe the decision-making process of rural latrine owners and pit emptiers in low-income communities, with the goal ...

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... Bangladesh has done a great job of getting more toilets ...