Conspicuously missing

Waste dumping hits roadbock in Goa

Stressed city fathers

Book>> Costs and challenges of local urban services, evidence from India's cities by Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Om Prakash Mathur Price Rs 695

World Toilet Conference

Rs 1,400 crore for setting up water purification plants

Ministry of drinking water and sanitation gets Rs 15,260 crore

Power wastes

Dumped, duped

The rich are enjoying themselves at the expense of poor people's health

Karen E Smoyer of the University of Alberta, Canada, has been working on the impact of poor environment on the weaker sections of society. …

Dirty and thirsty

Height of inequality

Standard of living determines a child's height

Faceless workers

China lacks sewage facilities

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

Reclaiming water

Pune is clean

According to Report

Fixing old houses on Himalaya

German architect Andre Alexander has been restoring old buildings in the Tibetan capital Lhasa for 15 years now. Over the past few years he has …

Pee for plants

Experiments explore the potential of urine as fertilizer

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

Science & Technology - Briefs

South Asia

Algae alleviates

South African townships that were earlier helpless in the face of pollution caused by human wastes, are now bucking up to the problem. Spirulina, …

Karachi expressway elicits protests

A new planning commission or an advisory body?

Indications are that the National Development Reforms Commission that will replace the Planning Commission will not have financial allocation powers