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Mbeere residents embrace smart toilets to curb open defecation

One of the samrt toilets at Faith Njeri's home in Cianyi village, Mbeere north Sub County. [Timothy Kariuki, Standard]

Residents of Mbeere in Embu County have embraced modern pit latrines as they strive to end open defecation.

According to them, this is one way of raising sanitation standards and hygiene while preventing diseases like typhoid and diarrhea.

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