Amul takes hygiene a step forward

At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, …

Interactive map to monitor gaps in sanitation launched

The map will help monitor the progress in the construction of toilets in all districts

India does need toilets more than temples

Modi’s toilet remark has sparked a political row, but no one is paying attention to India’s sanitation challenge

A victim of urbanisation

Ways of lfie in rural and urban India

Poor amenities

Basic services can work against poverty but are usually elusive, shows the latest World Development Report

How clean is my country?

A collation of statistics on population density, water, sanitation and hygiene for 100 countries throws up disturbing trends

"Ecosan is not a second-rate approach"

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) related to sanitation rely on flushing systems. Uno Winblad, senior adviser, Stockholm Environment …

India performs poorly in sanitation and water accessibility

A global index finds no significant correlation between GDP and performance as China and India, the two fastest growing Asian economies, are …

One in three married couples in India have no room to themselves

NSSO report shows half of India has no access to sanitation, drainage or waste disposal

HEALTH HAZARD

Money from garbage

Yet another attempt

WATER PROPOSAL

Repair sewers or go to jail

New York to get its first public toilets

In Court

Villagers block garbage route

Yellow River has lost one-third of its fish

BETTER LIVING

UNITED NATIONS

Crunching numbers

Squatters' rights

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"

Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting …

Say no to plastics