An open-air illegal drug market near a church in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati has become so dangerous that Cincinnati police plan to barricade a nearby street for six months, Nearby ...

Millions of people in the developing world lack toilets. And that can have serious consequences. Human waste out in the open is a major cause of stomach illnesses and child mortality. From Nepal, ...

That’s what colleagues and I found when we studied households across six rural Cambodian provinces, focusing on their access to proper toilets and when people decide to abandon sanitary systems in ...

“Safe toilets for all by 2030” is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets. But, with just more than five years to go until 2030, the United Nations says the world is “seriously off-track … 3.5 ...

James Harper studies sanitation and other basic human needs in partnership with non-profit organizations, like iDE on this study, around the world through his business, Realize Research, LLC. Everyone ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...