Water riddles

Shanghai-ed

Public private prank

How smart is a smart city?

Urban growth model needs reality check

Drowning in its own rubbish

For Thiruvananthapuram, the only way to manage waste is by flouting rules

A tale of two cities

Toilet talk

A Vidarbha village innovates toilets where women chat freely

A toilet per second

Toilet training

The morning after

Human excreta is rich in soil nutrients. In a year, one person craps 4.56 kg of nitrogen (n), 0.55 kg phosphorus (p) and 1.28 kg potassium (k)&…

Emerging alternatives

A novel project in Kerala tries to introduce a sanitation technology that promises a cleaner and healthier environment

Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

Bacteria feed on pollutants in sewage, kill odour, but are they a complete solution?

Children of a lesser god

Swamped by sewage

Environment awareness in India's small towns is an apathetic mess

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Contract killers

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.

Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

Who dares trash them?

The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

The torrid charm of being a UP politician

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She's ended, as a newspaper put it, her "third honeymoon" with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a …

Private sector gives urban rubbish a new look

With government efforts proving inadequate, private organisations recycle the lion's share of urban waste in India.