If you happen to travel in Rewa Express, you will notice a slight change in its coaches

Toilets in aircraft do not flush with water; suction removes the waste into a collection bin below. When one flushes the toilet, it opens a valve in the sewer line, and the vacuum in the line sucks the contents out of the bowl and into a tank. Since vacuum does all the work, it uses very little water or the blue sanitizing liquid to clean the bowl.

Pinakini Express between Vijayawada and Chennai has been fitted with newly-built environment-friendly toilets.

A total of 509 toilets have been constructed in schools against the district administration's target of 532. Moreover, toilets have been constructed in all the anganvadis in the district

Ladies Circle India (LCI), an organisation formed by wives of members of Round Table India, will construct 100 toilet blocks in rural schools across the country over the next two years to commemorate

"Why do those people need toilets?

Lalu Prasad has gone green with a vengeance. And it's not just colour of the unprecedented cash surplus of Rs 25,000 this fiscal that's green, there are other moves too. Railways will switch over to green discharge-free toilets by 2012 and switch over to energy-efficient CFL lamps in all staff quarters. Calling discharge from toilets a

Despite mak ing numerous foreign junkets to study the subject of sanitation, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is yet to give the city even the minimum number of toilet blocks. Though the MCD has been indulging in big talks to give the city the modern toilet blocks managed by foreign companies, it's the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), which has less than 10 per cent of Delhi under its jurisdiction, having modernised 94 of toilet blocks in the south of Rajpath area and in the next six months will create another 100 of them in the north of the Rajpath areas.

Forty persons, including women from nine families living, at survey number 2A/8 on Bhau Patil Road in Bopodi are using nearby open ground as public toilet facility. This was after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demolished a public toilet they were using for last 25 years without making any alternate arrangement on January 18. The toilet was constructed by the PMC on a private land. NCP corporator Anil Bhosale later purchased the land and asked builder Ravindra Sankala to develop the site.

Taking women

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