The word 'latrines' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a toilet or an outdoor toilet facility, usually consisting of a simple pit or trench and a shelter or enclosure. Example: The soldiers dug latrines near their campsite to use during their training exercises.
In the dense city and slums, sanitation often means open defecation, the use of bags or chamber pots emptied into rubbish heaps or canals, or the construction of crude, shallow pit latrines – everywhere and anywhere.
Its six new classrooms and its new latrines, opened two years ago amid great fanfare including a roasted ox and the presence of many of the most important local dignitaries, stilled anxieties that the project was focusing too much on "software" – training and education – and not enough on the "hardware", such as buildings.
We already knew that water provision alone couldn't break the cycle of faecal-oral disease transmission because open defecation, poor hygiene, and poorly built latrines are the main sources of faecal contamination in the environment and water, and the real reasons why diarrhoeal diseases persist despite advances in water provision.
Even if there are latrines available, the lack of segregation threatens sensitive gender differences – in a study by the Red Cross in Senegal, girls are warned off urinating in the dirty and public school latrines: they may simply 'hold on' to their bladder all day, even to the extent of not drinking to avoid the need to urinate.
This is the serious point behind WaterAid's satire: a petition to provide latrines or toilets for the 1.2 billion women who don't have one.
In the huge shantytowns, many use poorly built latrines that collapse during the rainy season, or they use the beach or the narrow spaces between houses, and the failing sewerage system pumps raw waste into the streets.
A year and a half ago, the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref), which is undertaking the development work in Katine, funded by the Guardian and Barclays, built seven classrooms, a teachers' office/store and pit latrines at the school.
Indeed, one defector says that the half-fed army has been put on manure duty ordered to clean out latrines and slurry pits and spread muck on the spring fields.
His tent is a walk across a black wasteland pocked by the twisted wreckage of vehicles blown up in the war and little piles of human faeces left by the locals, who eschew latrines.
Most of their thatched huts lack electricity; sanitation consists of open latrines built over the sea.
Grander operators, who charge upwards of $500 a night, are suffering at the hands of budget safari hotels, whose minibuses crowd in on the animals, and whose latrines and rubbish pollute wild areas.
