Ecosan toilets on the ramp

An artistic solution

Faecal sludge management gets world attention

Meet on in Hanoi to identify new waste handling and treatment technologies and sustainable business models

Looking beyond privatisation

Book>> Privatizing water: Governance failure and the world's urban water crisis • by Karen Bakker • Orient BlackSwan • Rs 695

Another opportunity lost

This year's UN Commission on Sustainable Development meet provided no roadmap to attain Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and …

Review of film 'Wasted'

Film>> Wasted Swecha Productions directed by Anshul Uniyal and Vimalendu Jha 16 minutes

New diseases are the result of environmental degradation

After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, D A Henderson , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA,…

Caught in the web

Of poverty, life in India has improved little over the past decade, reports the planning commission's National Human Development Report 2001

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Mucky transfer

Bangalore's sewage contaminates Tamil Nadu's water

Playing with waste

Conspicuously missing

Waste dumping hits roadbock in Goa

Stressed city fathers

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World Toilet Conference

Rs 1,400 crore for setting up water purification plants

Ministry of drinking water and sanitation gets Rs 15,260 crore

Power wastes

Dumped, duped

The rich are enjoying themselves at the expense of poor people's health

Karen E Smoyer of the University of Alberta, Canada, has been working on the impact of poor environment on the weaker sections of society. …

Dirty and thirsty

Height of inequality

Standard of living determines a child's height

Faceless workers

China lacks sewage facilities

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

Reclaiming water