If you happen to travel in Rewa Express, you will notice a slight change in its coaches: small steel tanks fitted between the wheels. These are part of environment-friendly toilets, where the excreta is treated and stored. Coaches in Rewa Express, running between Delhi and Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, are being equipped with biological treatment facility. Unlike a normal toilet, in the bio-toilet only the water trickles down the track, while the sludge is retained in the tank.
Bio-toilets are part of an experiment to try out different types of eco-friendly toilets in trains. The Indian Railways plans to install eco-friendly toilets in all its 9,000 trains by 2011-13. And it is about time the railways changed tracks from open to
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/indian-railways-experimentation-eco-friendly-toilets
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/r-k-srinivasan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-conservation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toilets
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-transport
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rail-transport
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-treatment
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
