Only 10% of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s biggest city, is connected to the central sewage system. The pit latrines often over fill and emptying them is infrequent, dangerous and unhygienic. Water Aid is pioneering a cheap and simple pump and motorbike device that empties up to six latrines a day and is helping to reduce diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
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