What is a dry toilet

A dry pit latrine is a squatting pit below a storage cesspool or fecal tank buried in the ground, used to store feces and urine toilets, the vast majority of shantytowns in towns, urban and rural areas and rural areas. Because dry toilets do not have flushing equipment, sewers and equipment that can decompose feces and urine, as well as dry toilets, cesspools, squatting pits, urinals and cesspools inside the feces and urine can not be emptied in a timely manner, so these toilets have a foul odor, will attract flies and maggots.

With the development and progress of Chinese society, most of the dry toilets in towns and some dry toilets in rural areas have been replaced by flushing toilets and various kinds of environmentally friendly ecological toilets. These toilets are suitable for areas lacking sewerage facilities. Traditional dry toilets do not have flushing facilities, and only a large pit is dug in the latrine compartment to be used as a septic tank. Since the cesspool is exposed to the air for a long time, there are hygiene problems such as stench and breeding of mosquitoes.

In ancient times, whether it was the people, or the princes and nobles, the squatting pits and toilets were dry toilets. The popularity of flush toilet is only a modern thing. In ancient times, the toilet is a wooden barrel instead of the current pit, with a wooden barrel is to facilitate the disposal of feces to ensure the freshness of the gas.