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Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

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Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, an owner of a general store in east Delhi, runs a school under the Akshardham Metro Station Bridge, free of cost, for students of nearby villages belon...

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The parched planet: Water on tap

Researchers are exploring unconventional sources of fresh water to quench the globe’s growing thirst. In an effort to combat his country’s long-standing water c...

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With depleting groundwater, Lucknow headed for severe crisis

The groundwater level of Lucknow continues to deplete at an alarming rate due to unregulated and excessive extraction and relentless concretization of green zones. Accordin...

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India to be Land Degradation Neutral by 2030

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar says the government is working on a plan to `stop and reverse’ the serious threat With India’s food security under threat...

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In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and s...

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Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on th...

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Where are rural courts?

The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts are still few and far betw...

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Health

City drinking water not fit for human consumption

Thirty-five out of 62 water samples collected in last three days have been found unfit for drinking. This also includes six out 20 water samples collected from different ci...

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Environment

Climate change to almost triple risk of extreme Indian Ocean weather events

While the world is worried about an El Nino forming in the Pacific, a similar phenomenon may be under way in the Indian Ocean Shifting climate patterns in the Indian Ocean,...

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