Portable Toilets Fall Short of the Human Right to Sanitation in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements
A Photovoice study in Cape Town's BM Section finds that portable flush toilets and shared sanitation both fail to deliver ...
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Global Review Finds Startlingly Little Evidence That Sanitation Systems Can Withstand Climate Change
The first global systematic review of climate resilience in sanitation systems finds only seventeen eligible studies and twenty-seven potential resilience-building ...
Wealth and Geography Still Decide Who Gets Clean Water and Toilets Across 30 African Nations
A landmark analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data from 465,208 households in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries finds that while ...
The Missing Middle: Why Adolescents Are Being Left Behind in Global Water and Sanitation Efforts
A new PLOS Water opinion piece argues that adolescents, the largest youth generation in history, are the missing middle of ...
Lime-Treated Burial of Fecal Sludge Shows Promise for Safer Rural Sanitation
A field study in rural Cambodia found that limed on-site burial of household fecal sludge did not increase E. coli ...
When Floods Break the Latrine: Cholera and the Case for Climate-Resilient Sanitation
A new PLOS Climate essay argues that flood-driven sanitation failures in urban informal settlements are a core driver of cholera ...
Why Failing Water Utilities Are a Governance Problem, Not a Money Problem
A PLOS Water essay argues that the failure of water and sanitation providers in low- and middle-income countries is fundamentally ...
Where Toilets Are Scarce, Depression Follows: India’s Aging Adults Pay a Hidden Mental Health Price
A large multilevel analysis of more than 63,000 older Indian adults finds that living in communities with low toilet coverage ...
Toilets Under the Microscope: Global Study Maps 77 Years of Sanitation Research and Finds Gender Gaps
A new bibliometric analysis of 1,614 documents published between 1946 and 2023 reveals that global toilet research has grown rapidly ...
Dug Wells and Crowded Cities: New Model Maps Fecal Contamination Risk in Indonesian Groundwater
Researchers have built a nationwide ranking of fecal contamination risk in self-supplied urban groundwater across Indonesia's 99 cities using a ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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