Separate waste from water
Break the faecal–oral route on day one, before habits form.
Needs first: Find and hold water
- Guide Drinking water, Sanitation and disease, Micro-organisms, Essential medicines, Earth sciences
- Build Twin-vault composting latrine
- Sheets 1 reference sheet on the step and its guides
- Read Hesperian Health Guides; The Humanure Handbook; WHO water, sanitation and health guidance and 1 more on the step page

