Open Defecation Affects Pregnancy Outcomes Too, New Study Finds.

Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecati...

Nearly All India’s Water Is Contaminated By Sewage

Eighty percent of our surface water is contaminated and 80% of the pollution comes from domestic sewage. The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon recently admitted before the N...

Climate Pressures Threaten Political Stability: Security Experts

But work now to protect food security, reshape water sharing agreements and cut risks from worsening weather disasters could play a huge role in reducing future conflict, r...

An Airliner Near-Catastrophe Offers Unique Neuroscience

In August 2001, behavioral neuroscientist Margaret McKinnon was among 306 passengers and crew on Air Transat Flight 236, a transoceanic flight originating in Toronto and de...

The Past 15 Years — And What Remains To Be Done.

Achievements include more children surviving past their fifth birthdays, fewer cases of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, improvements in child nutrition, higher rates o...

GAIT Collaborates With GLOBAL WATER DANCES & The Children Of Lakshyam School

June 20, 2015

 On June 20, 2015, people from over seventy locations across six continents will assemble to revere, renew, and inspire solution...

The World Is Running Out of Water

Humans are depleting underground aquifers around the world at alarming rates, threatening hundreds of millions of people who rely on them for survival, according to a compr...

This Toy Car Is Powered Just By Water Evaporating

It doesn’t look like the most cutting-edge vehicle. A dinky toy car made out of what looks like Lego Technic creeps in slow jerks across a tabletop—and that&rsq...

Children Demand Inclusion In Water And Sanitation Programmes At UNICEF Forum

Children and youth from more than 12 countries urged world leaders at an international conference to include them in water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. At least 60 c...