Overview

Manual pour-flush latrines are more common than the cistern based. It has a water seal against odour and insects. Excreta in the latrine pan is flushed by pouring 2-3 litres of water.

A typical pour-flush-leach-pit type latrine is made of a superstructure, a WC pan with water seal, collection pipe, approximately 100mm in diameter, to discharge thewaste and water into the pit. For desludging purposes it is better to have the pit off-set and not directly under the superstructure, Desludging is required every 3-5 years. High volumes of sullage discharged into the pit can cause spill over during rainy season. In dual leach pit pour-flush latrines, one pit can be used while the waste in the other pit is left for further decomposition. Once the pit being used is close to getting full, the decomposed matter from the other pit can be removed and this pit can be used now.

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