Building toilets in rural schools is not enough, they have to be usable too

Around 23 per cent of rural schools have unusable toilets and 11.5 per cent have no separate toilets for girls, finds the 13th ASER report 

Why it's easier for India to get to Mars than to tackle its toilet challenge

For an emerging country like India, it is relatively easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge

Open defecation in an ODF district in Rajasthan

Here's a travelogue to four tribal villages in Rajasthan's Sirohi district, which has been declared open-defecation free; but there are …

Thirty-year journey to ODF

Sanitation programmes remained a mirage until the government shifted focus to information, education and communication

Ground report: Tanzania’s sanitation battle is just half won

Part 1: CSE team finds awareness campaign for toilets is not enough, correct designs are needed as well 

World Toilet Day: India needs one toilet every two seconds to achieve target by 2019

The need to construct toilets per minute has increased from 35 to 41; target may stretch up to 2035 due to extremely slow pace

India’s sanitation economy to double by 2021

It would be worth $62 billion in three years and the credit would go to Swachh Bharat Mission, say speakers at 18th World Toilet Summit

The missing manual scavengers of India

Government surveys are confined to statutory towns, highlighting the fact that the Centre looks at it as an urban problem

Nowhere a school

Sub-Saharan Africans spend 60 hours a year finding a private place to defecate

The state of sanitation is deteriorating in Sub-Saharan Africa, with countries switching from open defecation to unsafe toilets

Bonded labour, child labour: Manual scavenging in India far from being eradicated

More than 90% manual scavengers were never recorded through the PEMSR Act

Swachh Bharat Mission: Need focus on citywide sanitation, clean Ganga

Safe and equitable access to sanitation and ensuring behavioural change necessary for sustenance

Will electoral compulsions force govt to use muscular tech?

Display of technological power is being identified as a valid political tool to galvanise public sentiment

Swachh Bharat Mission: Haryana’s race for ODF tag pushed people in debt traps

Villagers were forced to construct toilets, but were not given subsidy promised under SBM

Flush with finance

Microfinance is helping poor people construct toilets in Tamil Nadu

As told to Parliament (February 8, 2023): No starvation death reported by states or UTs, Smriti Irani tells Rajya Sabha

All that was discussed in the House through the day

World Toilet Day: We built latrines for villagers in Sitapur; ‘Aaram Mil Gaya’, they said

Creating access to toilets can help achieve much more than Clean India

Swachh Bharat Mission: How model villages in Odisha quit ODF

Every household now has an extra toilet, due to SBM. Yet people are forced to defecate in the open because of acute water scarcity  …

Menstrual hygiene in Africa: No pad or no way to dispose it

Women in sub-Saharan Africa still struggle to have a healthy and safe period

Swachh Bharat Mission will achieve ODF target much before October 2019, but...

The country needs both financial and administrative attention towards ensuring effective management and disposal of solid and liquid waste

500 litres of water enough for this bio-toilet to serve a family of five for 15 years

Researchers from IIT-Kharagpur develop a bio-toilet that recycles water and turns waste to energy

Despite Centre's advisory, people are still intimidated into ending open defecation

In Rajasthan last month, local district administration arrested locals for defecating in the open and ordered discontinuation of electricity …

Rural Kerala declared open defecation-free

All city areas are expected to become ODF by January 1 and a majority of municipalities have already achieved the target

World Bank approves $ 1.5 billion loan for rural sanitation programme

The project will result in bringing significant health benefits to the poor and the vulnerable sections living in rural areas

Toilets spew invisible aerosol plumes with every flush — here’s the proof, captured by high-powered lasers

Aerosol particles containing pathogens are important human disease vectors