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• This video gives us a live example of how sustainable development should not only be preached but also practiced.

• Ulka Sadhalkar is an entrepreneur who runs a portable sanitation business in Pune and because she is aware of the harsh reality of the poor sanitation facilities in India, she came up with this ingenious invention.

• She used old, discarded buses lying in workshops and bus depots and converted them into portable pee toilets for women. These buses would otherwise be scrapped and compressed into junk, which would increase landfill and soil pollution.

• The fuchsia sanitation buses are located in tourist areas, major bus stops, and community centers of Pune.

• A mobile pee toilet houses 2 western toilets, 3 Indian toilets, a diaper changing station, and a space for breastfeeding. Menstrual hygiene products are also available for purchase and there is even a café.

• The entire bus runs on solar energy. Only during the monsoon season, they connect with the power grid.

• This initiative, therefore, has successfully been able to solve the problem of sanitation and land pollution. A win-win situation indeed!