Poor awareness and attitudes to sanitation servicing can impede China's Rural Toilet Revolution: Evidence from Western China.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing Toilet Revolution in China offers an opportunity to improve sanitation in rural areas by introducing new approaches, such as urine source separation, that can contribute to achieving SDG6. However, few studies have systematically assessed the social acceptability of managing human excreta collected in new sanitation systems. Therefore, in this study we performed face-to-face interviews with 414 local residents from 13 villages across three provinces in western China, to analyze the current situation and attitudes to possible changes in the rural sanitation service chain. We found that the sanitation chain was predominantly pit latrine-based, with 86.2% of households surveyed collecting their excreta in a simple pit, 82% manually emptying their pits, and 80.2% reusing excreta in

SUBMITTER: Guo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8434418 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature