African city mayors, meeting under the auspices of the African Water and Sanitation Association (Afwasa), have committed to ...

An exclusive quality of Indians living in India is the ability to look the other way when we ourselves are severely ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court slammed a BMC executive engineer, Slum Sanitation Programme, for delaying construction of toilets in a slum in Kalina, S.

As the quantity of rubbish grows, its nature and harms are changing too. Most of India’s waste used to be organic. Now the ...

on building toilets and eradicating open defecation. The newer programme’s goal is to make all Indian cities garbage-free. The central government has earmarked 365bn rupees ($4.3bn) for the effort.

Slum votes: AAP holds ground ... “Earlier, we had no option but open defecation,” said Kusum Devi, a local resident said. Water supply has also improved, further strengthening AAP’s standing.

Jare, Executive Engineer (Slum Sanitation Program ... he is compelling citizens to resort to open defecation. This in our view, directly subverts the intent behind the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, thereby ...

This once-vital lifeline of Salcete now teeters on the brink of extinction, its vibrant flow reduced to a mournful trickle in some parts. Over the past 12 years ...

Prof. Joseph Utsev, has urged state governments to take decisive measures against open defecation by developing clear, time-bound action plans that align with the revised Clean Nigeria Campaign ...