Bringing the basics to a neglected slum

An NGO is helping residents of a Kanpur slum to get amenities like drinking water, latrines and medical care

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink

Upholding the right to hygiene

The citizens of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh continue to put up with a filthy, malodorous town despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling 13 years ago, …

Managing water locally - a good model

In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance,…

Helping slum-dwellers to help themselves

Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who …

Revision of regulation of EIAs for what?

Unrealistic approach killing rural sanitation programme

Smoke on the water

Gorakhpur's deadly curse

The Japanese encephalitis virus and enterovirus cannot be tackled unless the administration cleans up its act, observes Sonal Matharu

Housing and toilets: exclusions

Who gets access to toilets, and how, is linked to their position in the hierarchy of citizenship

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum

Their own suppliers

Scarcity teaches a village in Orissa how to manage its water supply  

The world in his pocket

Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental …

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Researchers engineer landmass to treat sewage in wastewater

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

London gallery displays recycled human waste

Trade secrets

Rags to pads

Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India

Out of breath

After visiting hospitals and slums VIBHA VARSHNEY has found that asthma makes poor children suffer far more than their rich counterparts. And a …

Meltdown

Till a couple of decades ago Bangalore was a sleepy city -- running to the rhythm of old trading networks and retired people taking their evening …

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

New report on skewed urbanisation in India