Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

Churu says yes to hygiene

The district is all set to become the first in Rajasthan to completely stop open defecation. Will others follow?

Loo and behold

Sewage stink

Many townships in Greater Noida are not connected to the sewage system

Ugly is the new beautiful

A group of anonymous citizens in Bengaluru is cleaning filthy streets and inspiring change across India

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Change is for the obdurate

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

On green track

Railways has fitted more bio-toilets this year than the total number fitted in the last three years

Excreta's economy a true experience

Flush, but don't forget

Corporation for Sustainable Development

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