Daily Monitor
The issue: Community toilets
Our view: An adequate number of community toilets and pit-latrines that meet required standards should be constructed and properly maintained.
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According to World Health Organisation guidelines on sanitation and health, toilets should be available, accessible and affordable to all, constantly, and at least separate excreta from human contact. Their design should be culturally appropriate, suitable to locally-available materials and physical conditions such as water availability and ground/soil conditions, and in line with ability and willingness to pay.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in some places in our country.In Daily Monitor of May 5, we published a story titled, “1,500 slum dwellers sharing three toilets”. The story tells in detail how residents of Kasanvu, a slum in Namuwongo , a Kampala suburb, share three community pit-latrines. In the story, a resident, Dolphin Atieno, is quoted saying many people i