International E-Waste Day: Why India needs to step up its act on recycling
India generated 3.2 million tonnes of E-waste in 2019; details of 90 per cent of this waste are undocumented
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
Bihar elections 2020: Who is talking about safai karmacharis?
The Bihar govt refuses to identify manual scavengers; the latter continue to face abuse and death threats
World Toilet Day Special: Kate Medlicott on the role of water, sanitation and hygiene to combat AMR
Kate Medlicott from the WHO talks about the linkages of water, sanitation and hygiene in combating AMR
AMR in post-COVID-19 world: New report calls for response prioritisation
The report calls for a clear need to rethink AMR’s position as part of the global health agenda as COVID-19 will affect the global response …
Treat sanitation as public good: UN at launch of hygiene fund
The initiative aims to accelerate funding to countries with the heaviest burden of diseases stemming from lack of sanitation services
Sanitation woes cost Africa 115 lives every hour
New UN study urges African countries to pay special attention to invest in sanitation systems for faecal sludge management
NFHS-5: Child mortality drops, prevalence of malnutrition remains high
Despite the decline, India’s infant mortality rate worst among developing countries
Access to drinking water, sanitation improve across states, urban-rural divide remains: NFHS-5
Despite progress on sanitation front, several states reported every third or fourth person having no access to improved facilities
Punjab closer to ODF sustainability with community toilet guidelines
Recommendations not clear on how to treat waste, reuse groundwater
3 in 5 persons at farmer protest sites near Delhi have to defecate in open: Survey
Inadequate provisioning of toilets compromising health, nutrition and hygiene for all protesters, especially women, survey by Jan Swasthya …
Budget 2021-22 should provide for sustainable water supply, soaps under PDS
Nirmala Sitharaman should increase allocation for Jal Jeevan Mission substantially
Kolkata sewer deaths: Do not improve sewerage and water supply at the cost of sanitation workers
4 lives lost puts many on the dock including local officials as well as state government
The missing manual scavengers of India
Government surveys are confined to statutory towns, highlighting the fact that the Centre looks at it as an urban problem
Water’s value cannot be pegged to its price alone: UN report
The tremendous value of water cannot be confused with the concepts of ‘price’ and ‘cost’, the report said
COVID-19: What it is to ‘work from home’ for women waste-pickers
Most housing units in Bhalaswa village have not been upgraded to support informal waste work. This impacts women’s productivity, …
Open-defecation-free Kandhamal: Only if the toilets would work
Toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission did not have twin-pits for excreta collection or water supply, claimed villagers
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 …
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: 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 …
Rooftop rainwater harvesting: A tool for refashioning India’s water management praxis
Discipline of water management is now situated at the precipice of change; it has opened its traditionally closed and ‘elite’ …
India responsible for largest drop in open defecation since 2015: WASH report
The report also noted some progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6
Investing in water, sanitation and hygiene can fuel economic recovery: Report
Safely managed sanitation services can help achieve net benefits of $86 million from 2021-2040, says report
Is India really open-defecation-free? Here’s what numbers say
15% of the total population in India defecates in the open in India, according to WASH report 2021
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 …
