Residents of Saamstaan, a residential area in Usakos, have been pleading for basic sanitation services for nearly 20 years – a plea that falls on deaf ears.

The community continues to call on the municipality to restore their dignity by addressing their long-overlooked need for proper toilet facilities.

A pensioner from Olunkavu Village in the Omusati Region is grateful to the government for building a pit latrine at her homestead.

Residents of the One Nation informal settlement in Windhoek have expressed anger over the lack of water and dysfunctional toilets, forcing them to use nearby bushes, when nature calls.

About 60 Namibian employees at a Chinese-owned company, JTD Mining Group, near Arandis, will no longer share one toilet while on duty.

To get rid of overcrowding, the employer has further decided to build more sleeping rooms for the workers, following the Erongo Governors' intervention in the matter.

More than 42% of households in Namibia do not have toilets, while only 26% use private flush toilets connected to sewers.

This is contained in the 2019–2021 Namibia Census Mapping Basic Report, which was launched in Windhoek.