The curse of poor sanitation

A bacterial disease kills 42 people in India

A land in turmoil

An assessment of environmental degradation must preclude rebuilding of Afghanistan

"Water is a national resource"

GOURISANKAR GHOSH, executive director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva, Switzerland tells NIDHI JAMWAL that there …

Mystery stricken

Fever killed 277 in Uttar Pradesh. No one knows the cause

Megacities get a Central boost

Taking big business to the trash cans

Stormwater channels

Alitalia apologies to wastepicker but that is not enough

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …

Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

New look for seven Indian cities

Left unaddressed

Rehabilitation issue ignored in Kolkata's eviction drive

Sapping structures

Where do we dump it?

Ecosan toilets on the ramp

An artistic solution

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

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

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Mucky transfer

Bangalore's sewage contaminates Tamil Nadu's water

Playing with waste