Sanitation and Hygiene

Government focusing on Ganga clean-up and not its rejuvenation: Environmentalists

India is running out of water fast. As if this is not bad news enough, it has been found that even the available water is highly polluted with organic and hazardous pollutants.

India’s flagship sanitation programme, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), highlights both the importance of latrine use, and also of “safe and proper disposal”. Since most of urban India is not connected to sewers, the SBM recommends that cities work towards technological, financing and governance initiatives that would ensure safe faecal sludge management. In practice, this means mechanical (i.e.

Himalayan council constituted for sustainable development of the Himalayas

Basanti Haldar (45) has been living in a slum at Kalikapur in Kolkata for over two decades. She works as a domestic help in an upscale locality in the neighbourhood. She is happy nowadays due to an increase in her income. 

River Paondhoi is best known today as a sewer running through Saharanpur city. Originally, however, it was an important source of drinking water for the city. In its heyday, the water of the river ran ankle deep, just enough to wash one’s feet. People coming into the city would wash their feet in the river giving it the name, Paondhoi.

NMCG approves 12 projects worth Rs 929 crore under Namami Gange

NGT orders performance audit for management of solid waste

World Toilet Summit 2018, which is jointly organized by the World Toilet Organisation and Ecosan Services Foundation is to be held on November 19th -20th 2018, at Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India. World Toilet Summit is an advocacy initiative of World Toilet Organization in Singapore since 2001.

Artificial lake in Brahmaputra in China, flood threat in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam wanes