The Dirty Picture Armed with plastic tambio (local word for tumbler or lotta ), tribal women leaders from the talukas of Quepem, Sanguem and Canacona -- led by Women Front -- marched to the South Goa District Collector's office on November 17 -- ahead of World Toilet Day -- and petitioned the Goa government for its failure to provide them toilets . Calling that toilets for every household is an urgent need that cannot be ignored anymore, these women -- who are forced to defecate in the open -- threatened to launch an agitation if their demands are not met. This article attempts to bring to fore their deplorable condition. Its about 6.45 pm and the evening gloom is just setting in. Sitting in their cow-dung painted courtyard, Nilavati Velip (50 something), her three daughters and two neices are just growing desperate. Few colourful plastic tambios ( lottas ) are lined up under a flowering tree, next to a plastic drum, half filled with water. The wait has not