It’s a crisis and an opportunity, says Pragya Gupta of WaterAid India, a charity that works on sanitation: “It’s easier to do behavior change in slums because the need is right there ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Uganda loses an estimated 4 trillion shillings annually due to challenges in water, sanitation, and hygiene—crises that ...

Additionally, MHT has overseen the establishment of 746 CBOs in 895 slums, helped train more than 13,000 CBO leaders, and provided toilets to nearly 90,000 households. Successfully gaining sanitation ...

Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and ...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Shahar Berojgar Seva Sahakari Sanstha, a federation of 584 sanitation, waste segregation and allied workers’ societies in the city, has taken the Brihanmumbai Municipal ...

After World War 2, the mainly Victorian accommodation of Glasgow and many other UK cities posed serious problems, including overcrowding, lack of sanitation ... Living in slum conditions led ...

residents of Mukuru Fuata Nyayo slums are working on different ways of recycling waste products in their area. [File, Standard] An initiative aimed at improving sanitation and living conditions in ...

However, the Victorian housing stock was often in very poor repair, had inadequate sanitation and homes were often over-crowded. As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ground for ...