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: a receptacle (such as a pit in the earth) for use as a toilet
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The group also tends to dig latrine sites and holes for compost pits and gray water.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
Throughout Rwanda, roads, rivers, and pit latrines were clogged with rotting corpses.
—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
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
Throughout Rwanda, roads, rivers, and pit latrines were clogged with rotting corpses.
—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
See all Example Sentences for latrine
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“Latrine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latrine. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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