How clean is my country?

A collation of statistics on population density, water, sanitation and hygiene for 100 countries throws up disturbing trends

"Ecosan is not a second-rate approach"

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) related to sanitation rely on flushing systems. Uno Winblad, senior adviser, Stockholm Environment …

India performs poorly in sanitation and water accessibility

A global index finds no significant correlation between GDP and performance as China and India, the two fastest growing Asian economies, are …

One in three married couples in India have no room to themselves

NSSO report shows half of India has no access to sanitation, drainage or waste disposal

HEALTH HAZARD

Money from garbage

Yet another attempt

WATER PROPOSAL

Repair sewers or go to jail

New York to get its first public toilets

In Court

Villagers block garbage route

Yellow River has lost one-third of its fish

BETTER LIVING

UNITED NATIONS

Crunching numbers

Squatters' rights

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"

Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting …

Say no to plastics

Health-watch

Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

Managing wastes

The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes

CAMBODIA

ARGENTINA

MGNREGS won't subsidise rural toilets, says Gadkari

New study shows the small improvement achieved in sanitation between 2001 and 2011 not enough to improve health outcomes

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.