Manual scavenging
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title:
Manual scavenging
text:
Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for "manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or sewer or in a septic tank or a pit". Manual scavengers usually use hand tools such as buckets, brooms and shovels. The workers have to move the excreta, using brooms and tin plates, into baskets, which they carry to disposal locations sometimes several kilometers away. The practice of employing human labour for clean
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description:
Term used mainly in India
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_scavenging
date created:
2006-02-25T23:53:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T09:18:36Z
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