New Delhi, April 20 -- In 2020, two significant issues have been predominant: one concerns the COVID-19 pandemic, the second centres around the need for conserving water. On closer inspection, both seem interlinked. Whereas the first requires frequent handwashing to prevent infection, the latter calls for doing so without wasting too much water even while promoting proper hygiene practices.

It is here that well-designed commercial washrooms can cover both criteria. While constructing a washroom - or upgrading existing ones - apart from the above requisites, such spaces should be user-friendly and accessible for people with special needs, short-statured persons, children and the elderly. These factors are vital since commercial washrooms ca...