Rural water and sanitation needs to prioritise sustainability

Prioritising drinking water source sustainability, mix-up of nutrient cycle and reuse of treated biosolids & wastewater …

Global South water-sensitive cities: Focus should be inequity in access, functionality and reusability

Cities of Global South cannot copy-paste frameworks and solutions emerging from the Global North

Global South water-sensitive cities: Framing the discourse

Simply copy-pasting the concepts from the Global North will lead to sub-optimal solutions 

Swachh Bharat Mission 2: Way ahead for a long-term urban sanitation strategy

State governments need to develop an urban waste water management strategy: A mix of waste water treatment solutions for different towns based on …

Swachh Bharat Mission 2: The pitfalls — and the lure — of centralised urban sanitation system

Tapping nullahs, setting up one-STP without sewerage connectivity is neither a short-term nor a long-term solution for urban towns

Swachh Bharat Mission 2: Why centralised sanitation will not address urban problems

SBM 2 introduces a one STP nalla-based waste water treatment system, without a town sewerage system for small and medium …

How Delhi Master Plan 2041 misses the bus in every aspect

The draft Delhi Master Plan 2041 in its current form, lacks substance, basic data and numbers worth of a Master Plan on a range of issues, from …

Global South water-sensitive cities: Here is how to make our urban areas water secure in a just and inclusive way

 Neo-liberal capital and builder-led urban development are splitting our cities into unequal parts