The use of basic sanitation services has increased steadily between 2000 and 2015. India topped the world ranking in terms of the number of people still practicing open defecation, with almost 40 ...

India accounts for more than half of the world’s open defecation, despite years of significant economic growth and several initiatives by the government to universalize safe sanitation. In Where India ...

Growing urban populations, more public awareness of pollution and ambitious redevelopment plans propel big drinking water and wastewater treatment investment in two key cities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised President Droupadi Murmu's address to Parliament, emphasizing its role in strengthening ...

As the Indian government faces one of the worst job crises in the country, a recent job advertisement for sanitation workers ... offered by government jobs in India trumps other opportunities ...

The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives. sanitation-india-wasteA farmer in Peepli Khera heads into a sugarcane field to defecate, carrying a container of water to rinse with.

Over 500,000 candidates — including MBAs and engineering graduates and other degree holders — applied for 136 positions of watchman, gardners and sanitation workers. India’s unemployment ...