Roadblocks for bio-toilets in India

Bio-toilets are gaining ground. But emerging challenges could defeat the purpose

Their own suppliers

Scarcity teaches a village in Orissa how to manage its water supply  

Despite having toilets at home, many in rural India choose to defecate in open

Programmes launched to promote use of latrines have failed to influence sanitation behaviours of many people

Lack of toilets, how much it costs India

Inadequate sanitation has economic impacts across sectors like health and tourism; cost the country 53.8 billion USD in 2006

No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India’s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

Indian Railways' experimentation with eco-friendly toilets

Doubts dog toilet-building campaign

Over half a billion, which is nearly half of the country’s population, defecate in the open

Flushing down its traditions

A good society knows how to clean its rubbish. But instead of setting an example for the world through its traditional handling of human excreta,…

London gallery displays recycled human waste

As told to Parliament (February 6, 2023): India produces around 30 million tonnes of recycled steel

List of companies that produce recycled steel in India is not maintained centrally, says Faggan Singh Kulaste, Union minister of state for …

New mobile app under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to collect data on use of toilets

Details asked by the app not sufficient to give information on proper use of toilets, says expert

Dry clean

A Bangalore slum experiments with ecofriendly toilets

Watertight

Rate water fixtures for efficiency to cut wastage

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

A toilet per second

Bihar elections 2020: Who is talking about safai karmacharis?

The Bihar govt refuses to identify manual scavengers; the latter continue to face abuse and death threats 

India does need toilets more than temples

Modi’s toilet remark has sparked a political row, but no one is paying attention to India’s sanitation challenge

Waste, by any other name...

Pee for plants

Experiments explore the potential of urine as fertilizer

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

Usage of toilets in India is over 95 per cent, reveals new NSSO survey

This finding is, however, from a two-month rapid survey, considered too short by experts

Churu says yes to hygiene

The district is all set to become the first in Rajasthan to completely stop open defecation. Will others follow?

Fixing old houses on Himalaya

German architect Andre Alexander has been restoring old buildings in the Tibetan capital Lhasa for 15 years now. Over the past few years he has …

Loo and behold

Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II guidelines released

Safe toilets, with well managed black and grey water, are the need of the hour, particularly in rural areas