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

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