India leads the world’s failure story in eradicating open defecation, malnutrition

New WHO-UNICEF report warns that lack of progress on sanitation would undermine gains from access to safe drinking water

Cooking with compost

Loco loos going green

Effective alternative

HOSPITAL CLEANING

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 …

Droughts bring disease: Here are 4 ways they do it

Prolonged dry spells, particularly in semi-arid and arid regions, may have serious impacts, particularly if people aren’t prepared

Clean public toilets: A matter of national honour

A survey by the Union housing ministry showed that 55% of public washrooms were either dirty or completely unusable in Delhi

COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation

A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation 

Contract killers

Climate-resilient water, sanitation & hygiene policies need of hour to meet global agenda of 2030

The 10 African countries most water-insecure & climate-impacted need immediate attention 

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Nagpur’s bin-free plans in dumps

Outsourced firms default on garbage collection and treatment

New evidence emerges on how Mayas fortified maize, built indoor toilets

Scientists find maize starch spherulites , a unique byproduct of nixtamalisation, as well as tapeworms at a Maya archaeological site

Bullet train or safe sanitation: Tough choice for Nanded

When Nanded already lacks the basic infrastructure of sanitation, what is more important for the city at present

How a community came together to overcome the ODF challenge in Rajasthan's Thar desert

Learn how Churu built toilets much before the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission

India becomes open-defecation free but many challenges ahead

The challenge now will be mainly be to sustain India's open-defecation free status

Simply put: ODF India

Modi declares India ODF

Sustaining the status the next big challenge

ODF status will mean nothing without faecal sludge & septage management

With faecal sludge treatment still in nascent stage in India, toilets will add to the load of untreated sewage being disposed in water bodies

Sustained focus, behaviour change needed to make people use new toilets: study

Adding a behaviour change component to sanitation programmes can motivate people to use toilets, it finds

Focus on community sanitary complexes: Standing Committee to govt

In its latest report on the status of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), the Standing Committee on Rural Development said that community …

Sub-Saharan Africans spend 60 hours a year finding a private place to defecate

The state of sanitation is deteriorating in Sub-Saharan Africa, with countries switching from open defecation to unsafe toilets