City water plans: How to get more data smart

Designing tools and resources to help decision makers gather and analyse data cost-effectively may allow cities to generate sound water plans  

How Chunar, a small town in UP, is combating COVID-19

How awareness drives involving local bodies, distribution of PPEs and other equipment, helped turn the COVID-19 situation around  

Manual scavengers: Existing in the shade

Several government departments continue to maintain silence on plight of manual scavengers, despite an array of schemes for them 

COVID-19: Can wastewater help in tracking outbreak in India

Wastewater research can help determine how much the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurs in the Indian population

Can we declare ourselves ODF, without managing the collected excreta?

A lowdown on how to clean India and keep it that way

स्वच्छ गंगा: जब तक मल-मूत्र गिरेगा, तब तक निर्मल कैसे होगी गंगा?

एनएमसीजी ने 97 ऐसे शहरों की पहचान की है, जो सीधे गंगा की मु�…

Is the Ganga basin drowning in shit?

A slew of loopholes means that the Ganga and its tributaries will continue to receive wastewater and faecal sludge

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

Swachh Bharat Mission misses out on sludge management

Official representing India at third international faecal sludge management conference fails to provide satisfactory answer

Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert

Two-thirds people in cities are not even connected to sewerage and use onsite sanitation systems or defecate in the open

Faecal sludge management gets world attention

Meet on in Hanoi to identify new waste handling and treatment technologies and sustainable business models