Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the government aims to make India Open Defecation Free (ODF) and achieve 100 per cent sanitation coverage by October 2019
India is among the top 10 countries generating the highest amount of municipal solid waste. If we don't change our waste management practices now then soon...
Experts have estimated that annual waste generation in India will increase to 165 million tonnes by 2030. This means that around 66,000 hectares of land is...
The Swachh Bharat 'Deewar' poster that has gone viral and even caught Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attention on Twitter, is not the first time Bollywood has...
Lack of government planning, competing demands, rising population and water-draining agricultural practices are some of reasons responsible for water crisis in rural areas, a new report...
Nearly 76 million people in India do not have access to safe drinking water, as polluted rivers and poor storage infrastructure over the years has created...
30-year-old Santara Devi has access to 2 mobile toilets and 1 community toilet both of which are 40-steps away from her, but she still prefers to...
Jodie Underhill and her Waste Warriors have been instrumental in clearing garbage from some of Uttarakhand's best known tourist spots and are working hard towards a...
Almost half a billion Indians defecate in the open, out of which about 300 million women and girls in India have no access to the most...
23% of girls drop out of school when they start menstruating in India. Looking at this grim reality Soumya Dabriwal and Nitisha Sethia started Project Baala....
Can plastic which is for long seen as a scourge, a material that is polluting our environment slowly, actually be used for something good? The answer...
India is the seventh-largest country in the world by area but is also among the dirtiest country’s in the world, with more than half the population...
