Effective sanitation is the landmark of the modern world. The flushing toilet was invented in 1596 but not widely adopted until the 19th century and has remained virtually unchanged. Toilets account for 80% of commercial water use in buildings,...
Deputy Minister Dikeledi Magadzi together with the Limpopo MEC of Education, Executive Mayor of Vhembe District Municipality and traditional leaders have vowed to revolutionise sanitation to the residents of Vhembe as they handed over two blocks of...
Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) builds on the exceptional innovations developed during the original ‘Reinvent the Toilet’ challenge programme. Without inlet water or output sewer lines, G2RT is designed to be a new, affordable toilet. Could...
The existing toilet use paradigm is water intensive and designed to use a high volume of flush water to transport human waste away. Reduced-flush water toilets are possible and will contribute to decreased water use; however, with water-efficient...
The Department of Water and Sanitation has called on residents to value their sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of illnesses in communities. This comes as the global community commemorated World Toilet Day, which is observed annually on...
Conventional waterborne systems connected to centralised sewers are usually the preferred gold-standard choice for sanitation around the world. On the other side of the technological scale are on-site sanitation systems. Although less popular among...
As World Toilet Day was celebrated around the globe, South Africans were met with the shocking realisation that more people have access to cellphones in the country than toilets. According to the latest figures from Statistics South Africa (Stats...
While access to adequate sanitation is a basic human right millions of people around the world still practise open defecation. This is particularly shocking when you consider the impact that exposure to human faeces has on public health, living and...
By Boitumelo Lekalakala* Of the 41% of South African schools that employ cleaners, only 25% reportedly clean the toilets at least once a day. An alarming 57% of theses cleaners further revealed that they use the same cloth to clean the kitchen and...
