Mumbai District

Increasing concerns over the consequences of inadequate urban sanitation and water with regard to poverty, health, livelihoods, and education have spurred global declarations on the human right to sanitation and water. However, the social and spatial heterogeneity of urban poverty is often missing in global policy debates.

NIH scientists to probe if Mansarovar is the source of Ganga

Government announces launch of Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana

One characteristic of most Indian slums is their inadequate access to water, which has a serious impact on the health of its residents. Most of the research on water service delivery in slums until recently has focused on water quality and health outcomes, especially diarrhoeal illnesses.

For Kaleshwari Yadav, a resident of Morarji Nagar slums in Mumbai, rain is not her biggest worry; it is the lack of it. Residing adjacent to the Mithi (meaning sweet in Hindi) river, she says when it doesn’t rain, the stagnated river becomes a breeding ground of deadly mosquito vectors of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.

Humans are consuming groundwater rapidly: NASA

New criteria for villages and Gram Panchayats to be termed Open Defacation Free

Restore Ganga's original course: Patna HC

Government to launch nationwide monitoring of toilet use, not construction

States get a free hand towards the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan