Factors affecting toilet adoption in rural India
Men prefer to defecate in the open more than women, latrines are considered a luxury item and open defecation isn't considered a threat to health, finds a study done in rural North India.
Rural toilet (Source: Saurabh Phadke)
Poisonous cocktail in the Cauvery
Leachate from thermal plants in Mettur flows straight into the Cauvery river polluting cotton fields along the way. What else is this affecting?
Mettur is now home to many ash ponds
Neighbour's envy, user's pride!
Basavaraj's house in drought-prone Chitradurga district in Karnataka is mostly self-sufficient for water. Was it serendipity, luck or something more?
Basavaraj's water-sufficient house in Chitradurga
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