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Figure 11.2. A scheme of the study
area and land use patterns.
(squatter) settlements with marginal sanitary facilities. The widely used sanitation
facilities are pit latrines that are overloaded, each pit latrine serving 15 to 20 persons. The
preferred sanitation technique, applied in institutional developments of rural type (clinics
and schools), and in selected houses, is the septic tank.
