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

Budget 2021-22 should provide for sustainable water supply, soaps under PDS

Nirmala Sitharaman should increase allocation for Jal Jeevan Mission substantially

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  

UN sustainable development goals: Countries need bottom-up approach, urgent actions to meet targets

‘It is high time countries took urgent, extraordinary actions towards a just & inclusive recovery’

Managing water resources key for Tanzania’s sanitation fight

Part 2: Funding biggest bottleneck for carrying out plans; CSE team finds greywater mismanagement too

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

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

Amphan aftermath: Sundarbans villagers try to pick up pieces

Theft at relief centres, lack of toilets add to villagers’ woes five days after cyclone Amphan struck Bengal

Where will segregated waste go? Cities are clueless

A country-wide waste segregation campaign also needs to be backed up by a plan for treatment and processing

Why 700 litres free water daily may remain a far cry for Delhi

Arvind Kejriwal has kept his promise to Delhi by announcing the supply of 20 kilolitres a month (almost 700 litres a day) of free water for city …

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