human waste Maintenance & works
Order ST-02 Station 02/10 Depth −2.4 m

Work order · issued

WO-2604-02

The descent · station 02 of 10

Station
02 / 10
Depth
−2.4 m
Trade
Statistic
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4 min

Station 02 Statistic −2.4 m 4 min

The scale

A household can own a toilet and still sit outside this count. The figure measures treatment, not the toilet.

Scope of work

In 2024, 3.4 billion people did not have safely managed sanitation.

Ten people stand in a row on a pale isometric sidewalk. Six wear muted colours, and four wear green. PLATE 02A
Approximately four of every ten people on Earth live without safely managed sanitation. AI-generated illustration

A toilet counts only when the waste it collects goes on to treatment. Where waste leaves a household into a drain, a river, or a pit that is never emptied, that household sits outside the figure.

Sharing is the second gap inside the figure. In 2024, 560 million people used a toilet that another household also used. It works, and the household is still not counted as safely served.

Work items

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Carry forward

Each household in that figure has an address. Station 03 follows one that has no toilet at all.

An isometric staircase of five blocks, from a house with a private toilet at the top to open ground at the bottom. The bottom block is green. PLATE 02B
The ladder ranks a shared toilet below a private one, even when both are clean. AI-generated illustration
A round isometric tile with a green circular track and four stops: a house, a worker with a cart, a treatment building, and a compost garden. Field concept
The loop only works if the collection returns next week, and the week after. AI-generated illustration

Method statement · illustrative

SafeLoo

A subscription service collects waste at the door and carries it to safe treatment.

  • A subscription covers collection, transport, and safe treatment.
  • A worker swaps a sealed container at the door, so the household never touches waste.
  • The service issues a record for every load it delivers to the plant.

Illustrative concept, not an existing service. No such product is being announced here.

End of order 02 · station 02 of 10

The plates are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs. Figures come from the companion briefing; depth is illustrative of scale.