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'Sulabh toilet model can be adopted worldwide'
Wednesday June 06, 2012 07:58:35 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Sulabh
International founder Bindeshwar Pathak Sunday said Microsoft
founder Bill Gates could adopt his NGO's model to build low-cost
toilets in Asia, Africa and Latin America to put an end to open
defecation.
"Till better designs come up, implementation of the two designs
for individual household toilets and community toilets for
disposal of human waste developed by Sulabh International will
realise the wishes of Mr. Gates to a large extent," a Sulabh
statement quoting Pathak said.
Pathak's remarks at a function here came after Gates, during a
trip to India last week, spoke about providing such toilets to
millions in India, the statement said.
Pathak said Sulabh toilets used just a litre water for flushing
rather than 10 needed in conventional toilets. He said Sulabh's
designs should be adopted on a wider scale because the toilets
satisfied the criteria of a design which was culturally acceptable
and affordable.
The designs have already been accepted many countries of Africa
and in Afghanistan, he said.
He said Sulabh maintained nearly 8,000 public toilets for
community use. Some of them were attached to human excreta-based
biogas plant and the Sulabh Effluent Technology device.
The device treated effluents emanating from public toilets and
make them colourless, odourless and pathogen-free, he said.
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