India’s challenges in waste management

The key to efficient waste management is to ensure segregation source and resource recovery

Conspicuously missing

Waste dumping hits roadbock in Goa

Stressed city fathers

Book>> Costs and challenges of local urban services, evidence from India's cities by Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Om Prakash Mathur Price Rs 695

On green track

Railways has fitted more bio-toilets this year than the total number fitted in the last three years

Excreta's economy a true experience

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

Letters

World Toilet Conference

Air pollution can cut 8 yrs off lives of 250 mln north Indians: Report

Air pollution shortened the average life expectancy by 5.2 years in India, according to the report

How Delhi slums can fight climate change

Women's roups in the national capital are making efforts to build resilience against climatic impacts

South Africa aims to speed up service delivery to all citizens

Country’s 20 year review shows jump in access to sanitation and water services between 1994 and 2014

One toilet every second: Modi government’s 100 day target

Union ministry issues orders to all states to meet target of constructing 5.2 million toilets by end of August

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 legendary Gandhian

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

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 …

Malnutrition threatens 120 UN member nations, says global report

India performs well on under-5 stunting, but sanitation continues to be the biggest stumbling block

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