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Only 10% of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s biggest city, is connected to the central sewage system. The pit latrines often over fill and emptying them is infrequent, dangerous and unhygienic. Water Aid is pioneering a cheap and simple pump and motorbike device that empties up to six latrines a day and is helping to reduce diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

• On site 06 August 2011
• Air date 06 August 2011
• Produced for BBC World

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• The Health Show,
• water and sanitation,
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