Sanitation & Infrastructure
Low-cost sanitation that works without a sewer connection. Built right, these systems break disease transmission and return nutrients to the soil instead of into the groundwater.
Tippy Tap Handwashing Station
A foot-operated hands-free handwashing station built from a jerrycan, sticks and string — runs on a fifth of the water of a tap.
Ferrocement Water Storage Tank
A wire-mesh and mortar shell that stores 5,000 litres for a fraction of the price of an imported plastic tank, built entirely on site.
Arborloo Shallow-Pit Compost Toilet
A shallow pit toilet with a movable slab and superstructure — fill it, cap it with soil, plant a tree on it and dig the next one.
Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
A lined pit latrine with a dark interior and a screened vent pipe that pulls odour out and traps flies — the standard upgrade from an open pit.
Urine-Diverting Dry Toilet
A twin-vault toilet with a diverting pedestal that keeps urine and faeces separate, so faeces dry out odour-free and both streams become usable fertiliser.
Greywater Reed Bed
Route kitchen and washing water through a gravel-filled planted bed instead of a stinking pit, and irrigate fruit trees with the outflow.
Tiger Worm Toilet
Run a pour-flush or drop toilet onto a bed of composting worms in a drained vault, so faeces are digested in place and the pit fills at a fraction of the usual rate.
Pour-Flush Latrine Pan & Water Seal
A cast pan with a water-seal trap turns a smelly pit into a clean, fly-free, odour-free toilet — flushed with two or three litres poured by hand.
Foot-Pedal Handwashing Station
A hands-free pedal station that runs on a jerrycan of water — no tap to touch, so washing hands doesn't recontaminate them.