{"id":290,"date":"2019-06-21T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2019-07-02T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:58:19","slug":"communal-sanitation-solutions-for-urban-slums-in-orissa-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/communal-sanitation-solutions-for-urban-slums-in-orissa-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Communal Sanitation Solutions for Urban Slums in Orissa, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Project Summary<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the slums of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in India, almost 45 percent of households use either public toilets, which are meant for a rotating population in commercial areas, or communal toilets, which serve a fixed residential population. However, the condition of these facilities is very poor. A preliminary survey showed that 53 percent of these toilets were either \u201cdirty\u201d or \u201cvery dirty\u201d, and one in six facilities was completely non-functional. When the toilets then fall into disrepair, people often revert to open defecation, leading communal toilets to be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>This program seeks to improve the physical infrastructure of community and public toilets, while simultaneously testing new communal management systems, to identify a solution that will produce the most attractive, sustainable and hygienic alternatives to open defecation for slum residents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press &amp; Blog Coverage<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2013. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2012\/06\/24\/a-visit-to-the-potty-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Visit to the Potty Lab<\/a>&#8220;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Project Summary In the slums of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in India, almost 45 percent of households use either public toilets, which are meant for a rotating population in commercial areas, or communal toilets, which serve a fixed residential population. However, the condition of these facilities is very poor. A preliminary survey showed that 53 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}