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A PLACE TO GO 105 deeper. “Fifteen feet would have been better,” he says. Pit latrines have a huge drawback, you see: They fill ...

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A PLACE TO GO 109 a latrine pit so big they’ll never have to empty it. Or that hundreds of millions of them—most of whom could a ...

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A PLACE TO GO 115 But the pit still does have to be excavated— and that has sharply limited the spread of twin- pit latrines in ...

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