'78% of sewage generated in India remains untreated'

Analysis and reporting by Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine reveal how Indian cities are disposing of excreta in an …

Back to toilet school

On August 15, the government announced it had achieved the target of building toilets in all schools in India. But are these toilets functional?

UN highlights importance of water in maintaining global peace

Stresses the need for better water management techniques worldwide

An artistic solution

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone

Housing and toilets: exclusions

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

Letters

लैंडफिल में खाद के उपयोग से पर्यावरणीय फायदे हो सकते हैं : अध्ययन

उत्तरी कैरोलिना स्टेट यूनिवर्सिटी के एक नए अध्ययन में पाया गया है कि लैंडफिल में खाद का उपयोग करने से महत्वपूर्ण पर्यावरणीय फायदे हो ...

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कैग ने कहा कि रिजर्व फंड की उदासीनता वित्त मंत्रालय की विफलता है। भारत की संचित निधि में रह जाने वाले उपकरों की राशि ...

कोविड-19 के कारण गरीबी की दलदल में धंसे 15 करोड़ बच्चे: यूनिसेफ

यूनिसेफ का कहना है कि आने वाले महीनों में यह स्थिति और बदतर हो सकती है

दुनिया में बढ़ रहा है इलेक्ट्रॉनिक कचरा, 2019 में केवल 17 फीसदी किया गया रिसाइकल

2019 में भारत ने करीब 32.3 लाख मीट्रिक टन ई-वेस्ट उत्पन्न किया था जोकि अफ्रीका के कुल ई-वेस्ट से भी ज्यादा है

25% healthcare centres lack water facilities, 20% sanitation facilities: WHO

The report highlights that each year 17 million women in least developed countries give birth in centres with inadequate facilities for water, …

Growing dissent against ‘successful’ economic growth model

A new de-globalising world order means that to find equitable and affordable growth, we need to challenge the polluted model that has pushed us …

Swachh Survekshan 2017 encouraging unsustainable approaches for waste management: CSE

Says the survey should give preference to waste segregation and recycle and reuse over centralised approaches like landfill and waste-to-energy plants

Roadblocks for bio-toilets in India

Bio-toilets are gaining ground. But emerging challenges could defeat the purpose

Costs and benefits of India's waste disposal options

Urban India produces 120,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste each day. Businesses want to burn this garbage to produce electricity, using …

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

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 …

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  

NFHS-5: Child mortality drops, prevalence of malnutrition remains high

Despite the decline, India’s infant mortality rate worst among developing countries