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  2. Pit latrine - Wikipedia

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    A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground. [2] Urine and feces enter the pit through a drop hole in the floor, which might be connected to a toilet seat or squatting pan for user comfort. [2] Pit latrines can be built to function without water (dry toilet) or they can have a ...

  3. Flush toilet - Wikipedia

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    A typical flush toilet is a fixed, vitreous ceramic bowl (also known as a pan) which is connected to a drain. After use, the bowl is emptied and cleaned by the rapid flow of water into the bowl. This flush may flow from a dedicated tank (cistern), a high-pressure water pipe controlled by a flush valve, or by manually pouring water into the bowl ...

  4. Toilet - Wikipedia

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    A dry toilet (or non-flush toilet, no flush toilet or toilet without a flush) is a toilet which, unlike a flush toilet, does not use flush water. [18] Dry toilets do not use water to move excreta along or block odors. [19] They do not produce sewage, and are not connected to a sewer system or septic tank. Instead, excreta falls through a drop ...

  5. Human feces - Wikipedia

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    Human feces photographed in a toilet, shortly after defecation. Human feces (American English) or faeces British English), commonly and in medical literature more often called stool, [1] are the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by ...

  6. Toilet plume - Wikipedia

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    Toilet plume. [1] A toilet plume [2] is the cloud like dispersal of microscopic sewage particles & water vapor as a result of flushing a toilet. Day to day use of a toilet by healthy individuals is considered to be of a lower health risk. However this dynamic rapidly changes if an individual is fighting an illness and currently shedding out ...

  7. 2,200-year-old flush toilet — oldest ever found — unearthed ...

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    The flush toilet is anywhere from 2,200 years old to 2,400 years old, according to the release and China Daily. The exact age is unknown because the ruined palace buildings were used for centuries ...

  8. Latrine - Wikipedia

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    1) Bench. 2) Main water channel. 3) Front water channel. 4) Wall. 5) Window. 6) Divider. 7) Washbasin. A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or ...

  9. Defecation - Wikipedia

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    Defecation. Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca. The act has a variety of names ranging from the common, like pooping or crapping, to the technical, e.g. bowel movement ...