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It is also important to know how to make a latrine should in case one find him/herself in a tight corner.
A closed latrine has a platform or slab with a hole in the center of it and a lid over the hole. The slab can be made if wood or cement.
Cement is better because the slab firs more tightly and will not rot.
One way to make a cement slab:
(1) Dig a shallow pit, about 1 meter square and 7 cm. deep. Be sure the bottom of the pit is level and smooth.
(2) Make it cut a wire mesh or grid 1 meter square. The wires can be ¹/⁴ to ¹/² cm. think and about 10 cm. apart. Cut a hole about 25cm. across in the middle of the grid.
(3) Put the grid in the pit. Bend the ends of the wires, or put a small stone at each corner, so that the grid stands about 3 cm. off the ground.
(4) Put an old bucket in the hole on the grid.
(5) Mix cement with sand, gravel, and water and pour it until it is about 5 cm. thick. (With each shovel of cement mix 2 shovels of sand and 3 shovels of gravel.)
(6) Remove the bucket when the cement is beginning yo get hard (about 3 hours).
Then cover the cement with camp cloths, sand, hay, or a sheet of plastic and keep it wet. Remove slab after 3days.
You can now start using it
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A closed latrine has a platform or slab with a hole in the center of it and a lid over the hole. The slab can be made if wood or cement.
Cement is better because the slab firs more tightly and will not rot.
One way to make a cement slab:
(1) Dig a shallow pit, about 1 meter square and 7 cm. deep. Be sure the bottom of the pit is level and smooth.
(2) Make it cut a wire mesh or grid 1 meter square. The wires can be ¹/⁴ to ¹/² cm. think and about 10 cm. apart. Cut a hole about 25cm. across in the middle of the grid.
(3) Put the grid in the pit. Bend the ends of the wires, or put a small stone at each corner, so that the grid stands about 3 cm. off the ground.
(4) Put an old bucket in the hole on the grid.
(5) Mix cement with sand, gravel, and water and pour it until it is about 5 cm. thick. (With each shovel of cement mix 2 shovels of sand and 3 shovels of gravel.)
(6) Remove the bucket when the cement is beginning yo get hard (about 3 hours).
Then cover the cement with camp cloths, sand, hay, or a sheet of plastic and keep it wet. Remove slab after 3days.
You can now start using it
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