3. Objectives
To study and analyze about public toilets.
To find out the prevailing conditions of Public
toilet.
To relate our theoretical understanding with
the real environment.
To understand major problems and solutions.
To indentify the socio-economic and
environmental impact of public toilets.
4. What is Public Toilet??
Public toilets are places where one is obliged
to ease oneself in unfamiliar surroundings
among the strangers of the same sex.
5. Why Public Toilet ??
…Employment …
…Safety of people …
…Clean Environment …
6.
7. Current Condition of Public Toilet in
Nepal
Only 33 public toilets in Kathmandu valley .
About 90% of toilets are cleaned 3 times a day.
About 18% toilets do not have water supply &
only 45% of them provide soap.
Lack of women friendly rest rooms.
8. Public Toilet on Mount Everest..!!!!
Nepal Government is planning to install
portable toilets on mount Everest.
Installing public toilets on Everest can
become a wider waste management plan.
Eco Everest Expedition, a Nepal-based
coalition of environmentalists campaigning to
keep the mountain clean, has collected more
than 10 tons of rubbish, 400 kilos of human
waste and four bodies since 2008.
9. Capacity and number of users per day
Toilet Location Capacity No of Users
Gents Ladies
Urinal WC Urinal WC Gents Ladies
Bhoogal Park 8 3 5 2 300 15
Gongabu Bus Park 18 9 - 8 600 400
Near 6 7 - 2 400 50
Jamal 7 7 - 3 600 100
Tundikhel(near GPO) 4 5 2 2 400 50
Tundikhel(near NEA) 4 4 - 2 1700 600
Kathmandu - 4 - - 100 -
Patan Dhoka 4 7 - 4 100 20
Chhyabahal - 13 - - 100 -
10. “Not every child is lucky enough to
become 5 years old…..
Diarrhea is the world’s biggest cause of
death,
for children between 0 and 5 years old.”
11. Our Challenges
Lack of awareness.
Public and political intervention.
Public Toilet should be incorporated in ‘to
be constructed public toilets’.
Provision of investing certain percentage of
profit in maintaining public toilets.
Public toilet fares should be minimum.
12. Remedies To Improve Public Toilet
Supply of sufficient water in public toilets.
Daily regular cleaning and supervision by
concerned authorities.
Proper education to people for encouraging
the use of public toilets and eradicating bad
habits.
Construction of comprehensive underground
sewage system and a good street drainage.