Streets paved with sewage - WaterAid (sitios de interés)

WaterAid | Streets paved with sewage

Where there is no sewage disposal system in urban slums, composting latrines can help.

In Mbuyuni part of the peri-urban Temeke District of Dar es Salaam, the lanes flow with raw sewage.

A lot of households in Mbuyuni have pit latrines, but because there is no system in place to safely dispose of the hazardous waste in the pits, they are often emptied into the street during the rainy season.

WaterAid and HERO promote composting latrines as a way around this problem. Composting latrines produce a dry compost which can be dug out and used for crops or sold once the latrines are full.

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