A thumbs up for mobile loos

In a complete contrast to the central government’s and state government’s endeavour to provide a toilet to all households in villages across the country, the same government is showing apathy towards providing sanitation facility to metro cities, which need them the most.

Sanitation is not the priority for the government says Rajeev Kher, MD, Saraplast (Shramik). Kher’s company is a sanitation solution provider in urban and rural parts of India. “We are just not providing solution to the situation but we also provide standard portable solutions with dignity. With this we are also trying to conserve water with minimum usage,” said Kher, who participated in Good & Green conclave organised by Godrej last week.

Kher feels that effective sanitation planning in cities and use of portable toilets can also help reduce water wastage. Mobile toilets for large gathering, public rallies and exhibitions are an easy solution, but Kher advocates mobile toilets for slum which will provide easy and cheap solution. Also this will do away with different permissions and procedures required for the construction of the toilet in the city, which faces paucity of space.

125 billion litres of water is wasted across the world each day. For holistic approach of saving water along with providing dignified solution for the masses, mobile toilets will go long way.

“Vacuum suction technology and pour flush technology for disposal of waste from the toilet helps in easy maintenance with less usage of water. While we tend to use five – 10 litres of water for normal flush, in mobile toilets flushing needs only 330 Ml – 1 litre water”, said Kher who runs a couple of projects for slums in Pune and a few girls schools. He added that bio-based deodorisers and vinegar or soil based additives for cleaning purpose so that the toilets are environment friendly.