Just over 4,000 private homes in The Bahamas make use of outside toilets, unconventional toilet facilities or are without toilet facilities at all, according to a report released by the Department of Statistics.
According to the ‘Private Dwellings by Type and Use of Toilet Facilities and Main Source of Water Supply Report’, which was released last week, a total of 2,125 of the 102,758 households across The Bahamas use pit latrines, which is another name for outside toilets. The report also shows that 209 households have no form of toilet facilities and another 1,318 households use “other” toilet facilities, which includes the use of slop buckets or the disposing of waste in the bushes, according to an official from the Department of Statistics.
Most of those homes that fall in those three categories do not have indoor plumbing and depend solely on public wells, tanks or the public stand pipes also known as public water pumps as their main source of water.
