Sulabh International Toilets

Defeating Global Poverty: Sulabh International Toilets

Dealing with human waste is still a challenge for many countries. Sulabh International, a NGO based in New Delhi, India has created an ingeniously simple latrine which costs $100 with the following characteristics:

• it first empties into one pit, and then, when it is full into a second pit
• it flushes with 2 litres of water vs. 10 litres required by a standard cistern toilet
• it takes 10 people two years to fill one pit, by which time the waste in the other has turned into composted manure, clean enough for growing vegetables.