Bombay’s Community of Resource Organization (CORO)is working to provide sustainable,community run sanitary facilities in the city’s low-income settlements.In the congested slum areas,stationary toilets have proven difficult to build and nearly impossible to maintain,but in July,1992,CORO took over the management of government constructed toilet facilities in several locations throughout the city.Building a unique partnership between their new sanitation project and their longstanding literacy program,CORO combined community library facilities with their sanitary facilities.Local groups manage the toilets on a cooperative bases,sometimes finding sponsors for the poorest areas where the toilets cannot pay for their own upkeep.The maintenance activity is providing monthly pay for 500 workers,while community members who are happy with clean facilities and adequate water are willing to pay.