No latrines and drinking water for more than half of India, finds survey

Toilet talk

A Vidarbha village innovates toilets where women chat freely

A toilet per second

Toilet training

The morning after

Human excreta is rich in soil nutrients. In a year, one person craps 4.56 kg of nitrogen (n), 0.55 kg phosphorus (p) and 1.28 kg potassium (k)&…

Emerging alternatives

A novel project in Kerala tries to introduce a sanitation technology that promises a cleaner and healthier environment

Bioremediation works

Appetite for sewage

Bacteria feed on pollutants in sewage, kill odour, but are they a complete solution?

Children of a lesser god

Swamped by sewage

Environment awareness in India's small towns is an apathetic mess

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Contract killers

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.

Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

Who dares trash them?

The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

The torrid charm of being a UP politician

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She's ended, as a newspaper put it, her "third honeymoon" with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a …

Private sector gives urban rubbish a new look

With government efforts proving inadequate, private organisations recycle the lion's share of urban waste in India.

Politics of sanitation

Toilet rule fails in Karnataka panchayats

Mr Modi, how about including garbage in your sanitation deadline?

India is the sixth largest garbage generating country, but has made provision to treat only 12.5 per cent of it

Bringing the basics to a neglected slum

An NGO is helping residents of a Kanpur slum to get amenities like drinking water, latrines and medical care

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

What a waste

Solid waste management plant that won Kanpur an award raises a stink