Letters: Behavioural change

Behavioural change

With reference to “Toilet mystery: Blaming and shaming not the way” (July 31), Sunita Narayan is right in appealing for providing incentives in order to effect a behavioural change in renouncing open defecation and switching to the use of toilets. However, it would be even better if this incentive also addressed the aspect of sustainable sanitation, which is the need of the hour given the scarcity of water. The Swachh Bharat Mission should aim to build eco-friendly toilets like the urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) or alternatively bio-toilets which use little water and also do not contaminate groundwater.