as in bathroom
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
where's the nearest latrine, soldier?
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Throughout Rwanda, roads, rivers, and pit latrines were clogged with rotting corpses.
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Phil Clark, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Last year, the WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that around 3.5 billion people — 43% of the world’s population — have no access to a toilet or latrine connected to wastewater treatment or safe disposal.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
This includes distributing cholera prevention kits, decontaminating homes and communal latrines, and setting up hand disinfection stations.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
Nearly a billion of those people use unsafe pit latrines or buckets, or defecate in the open.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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Phil Clark, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Last year, the WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that around 3.5 billion people — 43% of the world’s population — have no access to a toilet or latrine connected to wastewater treatment or safe disposal.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
This includes distributing cholera prevention kits, decontaminating homes and communal latrines, and setting up hand disinfection stations.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
Nearly a billion of those people use unsafe pit latrines or buckets, or defecate in the open.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Latrine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latrine. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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