Banning manual scavenging in India: A long, complex passage

Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in …

Dust pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa raised infant mortality: Study

A 25% spike in local annual mean particulate concentrations in West Africa caused an 18% increase in infant mortality

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&…

Can a cash-on-delivery model work for global aid?

As rich nations try to heal the scars of 2008 global financial crisis through deep budget cuts and protectionist policies, business models like …

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

Unreal in pampered India

With NDMC winning the smart city challenge, the contrast between where the government lives and where the rest of the citizens live could not …

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

How Chunar, a small town in UP, is combating COVID-19

How awareness drives involving local bodies, distribution of PPEs and other equipment, helped turn the COVID-19 situation around  

Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II guidelines released

Safe toilets, with well managed black and grey water, are the need of the hour, particularly in rural areas

Periods in a pandemic: Women, girls in low-income settlements need more support

Measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have made things worse by affecting their ability to buy sanitary products 

World Health Statistics 2015: some achievements, many concerns

Down To Earth highlights the world’s performance on health-related development goals, where our successes lie and where efforts are still a …

Citizens' forum demands continuation of AAP's free water supply scheme

On poll eve they prepare a resolution for all political parties, demanding extension of free water supply to all residents of Delhi and scrapping …

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

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

Science & Technology - Briefs

Water riddles

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

South Asia

Court orders water supply scheme for Khurpatal

Growing construction in the hill station is drying up springs downhill

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

Open defecation linked to stunting in Indian children

Research finds 10 per cent increase in open defecation associated with a 0.7 per cent increase in stunting in 112 districts

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