SIR: According to the 2018 National Outcome Routine Mapping (NORM) Report, 47 million Nigerians practice open defecation. In other words, one out of four Nigerians engage in open defecation. Nigeria ...

Millions of people in the developing world lack toilets. And that can have serious consequences. Human waste out in the open is a major cause of stomach illnesses and child mortality. From Nepal, ...

An open-air illegal drug market near a church in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati has become so dangerous that Cincinnati police plan to barricade a nearby street for six months, Nearby ...

“Safe toilets for all by 2030” is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets. But, with just more than five years to go until 2030, the United Nations says the world is “seriously off-track … 3.5 ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI-- The Kalamazoo City Commission’s recent decision to decriminalize urination and defecation in public has drawn the ire of some local business owners and brought the question, “Where can ...

James Harper studies sanitation and other basic human needs in partnership with non-profit organizations, like iDE on this study, around the world through his business, Realize Research, LLC. Everyone ...

TOWARDS ADDRESSING A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE. I’M GLAD THE DA AND THE COUNTY HAS TAKEN THEIR MEASURES AGAINST THIS ACTION. 35 YEAR OLD MARCEL SIMMONS IS NOW IN CUSTODY, MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER HE DEFECATED ...