{"id":256,"date":"2019-11-22T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odfl.org\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T04:16:26","slug":"the-beauty-of-latrines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/the-beauty-of-latrines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Latrines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bali-Latrine.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Latrines are not sexy.&nbsp;\nThey\u2019re not glamorous.&nbsp; But they\nare one of the most important elements in any comprehensive plan for economic\ndevelopment.&nbsp; Here\u2019s why.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without latrines to remove fecal matter from local environs,\npeople end up living in their own E.coli.&nbsp;\nIt\u2019s incredibly deadly.&nbsp; But when everybody\u2019s\npooping in the bushes, it gets tracked by animals, washed around by rain, blown\nby wind, and generally spread all around an encampment.&nbsp; And people die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution is surprisingly simple:&nbsp; contain the fecal matter below ground so it\ndoesn\u2019t get spread around.&nbsp; That is what\nlatrines do.&nbsp; We use an adapted UNICEF design\nto build latrines in Indonesia, Zambia, and Kenya.&nbsp; It is a functional, durable, and inexpensive\nsolution to one of the greatest obstacles to development.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re just completing Phase 5 of project to install 120\nlatrines in Ban, on the island of Bali, in Indonesia.&nbsp; Each unit costs only $300, because the local\npeople do the work.&nbsp; It\u2019s one of the\nhighest return-on-investment projects we carry out.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latrines are not sexy.  They\u2019re not glamorous.  But they are one of the most important elements in any comprehensive plan for economic development.  Here\u2019s why. ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}