According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Additional Municipal Comissioner Mohan Adtani, Mumbai has 1,742 public toilets for 1 crore 25 lakh people. “We know we need more toilets,” he says, “but space a is a major hurdle in their construction.”

November 19 is World Toilet Day and Mumbai, along with the rest of the country, continues to struggle with sanitation issues as ever. We look at three areas that need urgent attention from the authorities.