In Court

Villagers block garbage route

Yellow River has lost one-third of its fish

BETTER LIVING

UNITED NATIONS

Crunching numbers

Squatters' rights

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

"The West now understands that waste can be a resource"

Sweden's UNO WINBLAD was not a sanitation engineer but had trained as an architect in London in the late '50s. Those were the days of mounting …

Say no to plastics

Health-watch

Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

Managing wastes

The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes

CAMBODIA

ARGENTINA

MGNREGS won't subsidise rural toilets, says Gadkari

New study shows the small improvement achieved in sanitation between 2001 and 2011 not enough to improve health outcomes

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

Filthy art

Exhibition>> Dirt • The UK

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

TIMELY GIFT

Keeping track

Following up on sustainable development summits

Simple, bare necessities

To what extent are basic household amenities available to India's people?

Global aid on sanitation is southward bound

World Toilet Day: India now aims to build one toilet every two seconds

The country needs to play a major role in reducing open defecation

Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation

Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats

Plain talk about crap

Book>> The Big Necessity, The Unmentionable World Of Human Waste And Why It Matters • by Rose George • Metropolitan Books • …

Setting standards