Taken from Reuters:
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's first public toilets have debuted in Phnom Penh, a move by the city's governor to discourage residents from defecating on sidewalks and in parks.
The mobile toilets, which are free, began roaming the city about two weeks ago, and 18 more will be mobilized before the annual water festival in November.
Each day they make conveniently scheduled stops at the city's busiest districts, stay a while and then move on.
Governor Chea Sophara launched a campaign to clean up the Cambodian capital two years ago, rehabilitating the popular riverfront, landscaping public parks and ordering crumbling buildings to be repaired and repainted.
"People normally urinate and defecate in the parks because there are no toilets for them," Chea Sophara told Reuters by telephone.
"Now we have two mobile toilets -- two trucks we made ourselves -- for the people because we don't want our beautiful city to smell."
Tens of thousands of Cambodians travel to Phnom Penh, home to more than a million people, for the annual boat races every year.
After last year's three-day festival, which takes place on the riverfront across from the royal palace where King Norodom Sihanouk lives, city residents complained that the area smelled of human excrement.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's first public toilets have debuted in Phnom Penh, a move by the city's governor to discourage residents from defecating on sidewalks and in parks.
The mobile toilets, which are free, began roaming the city about two weeks ago, and 18 more will be mobilized before the annual water festival in November.
Each day they make conveniently scheduled stops at the city's busiest districts, stay a while and then move on.
Governor Chea Sophara launched a campaign to clean up the Cambodian capital two years ago, rehabilitating the popular riverfront, landscaping public parks and ordering crumbling buildings to be repaired and repainted.
"People normally urinate and defecate in the parks because there are no toilets for them," Chea Sophara told Reuters by telephone.
"Now we have two mobile toilets -- two trucks we made ourselves -- for the people because we don't want our beautiful city to smell."
Tens of thousands of Cambodians travel to Phnom Penh, home to more than a million people, for the annual boat races every year.
After last year's three-day festival, which takes place on the riverfront across from the royal palace where King Norodom Sihanouk lives, city residents complained that the area smelled of human excrement.
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