Reporting from Mumbai, India — Dharamani Kale emerged from the manhole, sewage clinging to his body. Next to him, Sona Bai gathered filth in a small round basket and carried it on her head to ...

In reality, while toilets are a necessary part of the solution, an arguably bigger yet often overlooked issue is how to contain and treat India’s sewage. Currently, 93 percent of sewage finds its way ...

India plans to order 80 billion-rupees ($1.3 billion) of sewage plants before next June to clean waste water in 118 towns on the banks of the Ganges, its holiest river, according to the nation’s ...

There are four years left for the government target of ensuring all Indians use toilets, but in urban India alone, no more than 30% of sewage generated by 377 million people flows through ...

Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, a testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. "We stay inside our ...

Venkata Mohan’s team is now collaborating with other scientists to establish a protocol for nation-wide wastewater epidemiology, an arm of surveillance grossly underutilised in India’s COVID ...

he Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) apathy towards treating sewage and releasing it into ... the treated water into the canal in Sadesatra Nali area on Pune-Solapur Road for non-drinking ...