What does dry toilet mean?

A dry pit latrine is a latrine that has a cesspool or tank buried underneath the squatting pit to store feces and urine. Because the capacity of the cesspool or tank is limited, it has to be cleaned out every once in a while.

Feces is dirty and smelly in everyone's opinion, but it still has its own use, no matter it is human feces or animal feces, after fermentation, it is a very good farmyard fertilizer. In the past, many farmers used farmyard manure to plant their fields, and some of them picked it up to water their vegetables, while others picked it up to use it as fertilizer in their fields. Although there are very few rural farmers who use manure for farming and gardening now, there are still some who continue to use it for farming and gardening.

The hygiene and health problems caused by dry toilets are very serious, and many rural areas have implemented rural toilet renovation policies, and there are now fewer and fewer dry toilets in the countryside.

Data released earlier by China's National Health and Wellness Commission showed that the incidence of fecal-oral diseases in areas where toilet renovation has been implemented has dropped from 37.5 per 100,000 to 22.2 per 100,000, with the number of people suffering from dysentery, typhoid fever, and hepatitis A dropping by 35.2 percent, 25.1 percent, and 37.3 percent, respectively. In order to successfully promote the "toilet revolution", around the rural households to improve the toilet to implement the policy of subsidies.