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projectActive · national · 1970

Sulabh Shauchalaya two-pit pour-flush sanitation movement

Sulabh International disseminates the Sulabh two-pit pour-flush toilet, a low-cost sanitation technology that uses only ~2 liters per flush, requires no sewerage, produces biogas and biofertilizer and eliminates manual scavenging of excreta.

Water irrigation pump running in lush green fields, Rangpur, Bangladeshillustrative atlas image · Masudar Rahman / Pexels

01 The context

It operates pay-per-use public toilet complexes in hundreds of cities and promotes the rehabilitation of manual sanitation workers.

02 How it works

03 What it stands on

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04 Go to the source

Visit the official site sulabhinternational.org