How to sustain municipal sanitation: Delhi’s Aya Nagar offers some lessons

The pilot project is a prototypical model for evolving a sanitation management programme in a high density settlement

How CSE trained professionals to address sanitation problems in India and abroad

Here are some inspiring stories of how alumni from CSE’s School of Water and Waste workshops used their acquired knowledge to attend to …

How an environmental engineer used faecal sludge management to make his Telangana town clean

Faecal sludge and septage management could be an opportunity to re-consider future strategies regarding treatment of faecal waste

How to make citywide sanitation plans: Bangladesh man shows the way

City sanitation planning provides a sound data base for practical decision-making on city sanitation 

Capacity building key to mainstreaming onsite sanitation management 

CSE’s School of Water and Waste aims to establish policy principles, innovative technologies and implementation strategies for citywide …

An environment engineer shows how sanitation safety planning helped Kochi Municipal Corp

Nearly 4.2 bln people do not have access to safe sanitation; sanitation safety planning is a risk-based technique that can help mitigate health …

Cities journey beyond ODF: India moves to sustainable sanitation for all

Indian cities are currently plagued by multiple challenges to water, sanitation and hygiene. At present, 163 million people do not have …

COVID-19 and SDG 6 goals: All that we need to learn and do

We need political will and commitment during COVID-19 times. Our world is packed with knowledge and we can achieve SDG6 goals if we remain engaged&…

COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation

A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation 

COVID-19: The need is to decentralise how we manage wastewater

The water crisis in India is dire: By 2030, the country’s water demand is projected to be twice the available supply

COVID-19 lockdown: A ventilator for rivers

Of 36 monitoring units placed in the Ganga, water quality at 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries …

World needs water, sanitation plans to mitigate coronavirus risk

Measures like hand washing are integral in protecting human health during disease outbreaks

Wastewater resource, not liability: Moving towards circular economy

If recovered fully from wastewater, there would be a reduction in global demand for nutrients in agriculture  

Decentralised wastewater solutions the need of the hour for India

With the country hurtling towards a water crisis and treated wastewater a possible alternative, using models that are different from the …

India needs to conserve waterbodies and value them

Let’s not destroy our waterbodies in the name of development and rather value their importance

India’s water crisis: The clock is ticking

We need to promote a decentralised approach, with a key focus on water conservation, source sustainability, storage and reuse wherever possible

Rainwater harvesting: Way ahead to encash the alternative water resource

Depending on the agroclimatic region the strategy may be different but the idea is the same — catch water where it falls

Liability turns resource

Noida takes the help of Centre for Science and Environment; plans to harvest its stormwater to check flash floods while replenishing depleting …