Household perceptions, practices, and experiences with real-world alternating dual-pit latrines treated with storage and lime in rural Cambodia.

ABSTRACT: Achieving universal safely managed sanitation (SMS) is an ambitious long-term goal in resource-limited rural areas. The non-governmental organization, iDE, introduced the alternating dual-pit latrine (ADP), which treats fecal sludge (FS) on-site using storage and lime to increase SMS in rural Cambodia. However, SMS via ADPs requires adherence to recommended practices (e.g., how and when to switch between pits). We surveyed 765 rural households with ADPs across five of 25 Cambodian provinces to understand how real-world household sanitation practices and knowledge affect and are related to adherence to recommended practices at scale. We calculated summary statistics of household survey responses and used regression models of composite indices to describe how households' practices and attitu

SUBMITTER: Harper J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12533883 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature