A toilet per second

An urban puzzle

India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?

Urban India's deprived lot

India is becoming dominantly urban, and the urban poor, who are increasing in numbers, face exclusion from basic amenities like safe drinking …

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

Unreal in pampered India

With NDMC winning the smart city challenge, the contrast between where the government lives and where the rest of the citizens live could not …

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Sewage stink

Many townships in Greater Noida are not connected to the sewage system

Karachi expressway elicits protests

Yellow River has lost one-third of its fish

Algae alleviates

South African townships that were earlier helpless in the face of pollution caused by human wastes, are now bucking up to the problem. Spirulina, …

What a waste

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

Scrap godown fire in Ghaziabad kills one

Sanitation workers deserve an inclusive ecosystem — here are 5 best practices for their safety and dignity

Urban India has an estimated 2 million sanitation workers 

Ugly is the new beautiful

A group of anonymous citizens in Bengaluru is cleaning filthy streets and inspiring change across India

Public private prank

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

SC agrees to subsidise five waste-to-energy plants

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

14 km from Pune, its footprint