In Short

Mumbai's fragrant dumping grounds

Development handcuffed

Confidential audit exposes financial, planning lapses in Andhra’s urban renewal mission

World Water Week discusses green options to manage water resources

Municipality in South Africa awarded for water and sanitation work

Srinagar officials, residents agree on three more dumpsites

Giant tunnel to save Thames from sewage

Garbage collectors protest in Nicaragua

Prepaid water meters unconstitutional

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

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POOP – It’s not crappy!

If we utilized whole lot of crap India produced per day through open defecation, we could light around 1,092,000 street lights or 72,800 stoves …

A long road ahead

Despite its vast numbers of scientists and research institutes, Indian science has always fared poorly on the global front. Several reasons have …

On wrong trek

The ecological perils of commercial hiking

Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

Why waste a chance?

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

Another plague in the offing

The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning …

Flushing down its traditions

A good society knows how to clean its rubbish. But instead of setting an example for the world through its traditional handling of human excreta,…

The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke

How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding …

The legendary Gandhian

Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management

An urban puzzle

India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants