Urban Sanitation

Urban Sanitation (Health and Sanitation)

A rag picker works inside the Achan landfill, digging through piles of waste to find recyclables while facing serious health risks

Life near Achan landfill: How Srinagar’s waste crisis is endangering homes and people’s health

11 Dec 2025

10 min read

In cities like Hyderabad, some people work quietly at the city’s edge to keep the water flowing to all households when systems falter.

Urban Sanitation

Holding a leaking Hyderabad together: Inside the life of the city’s plumber

26 Oct 2025

8 min read

Women and their unvoiced sanitation needs. Image for representation purposes only.

Urban Sanitation

Community led sanitation transforms women's lives

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

03 Nov 2024

5 min read

Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector for Dengue (Source: James Gathany via Wikimedia Commons)

Open drains and garbage attract dengue spreading mosquitoes in Delhi slums

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

19 Aug 2024

4 min read

Open drains, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)

Open drains drain health

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

15 Aug 2024

4 min read

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, the culprit for causing Zika (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Changing waterscapes trigger the spread of Zika in urban India

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

09 Aug 2024

7 min read

Piped water, but is it safe water? (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)

The conundrum of water quality in urban water supply in India

13 Jul 2024

4 min read

Puthenhalli lake, Bengaluru (Image Source: SlowPhoton via Wikimedia Commons)

Urban Sanitation

Urbanisation eats away Bengaluru's lakes

Andreas Buerkert

30 Jun 2024

5 min read

Bengaluru faces unprecedented water crisis (Image: Rawpixel; CC0 1.0 Universal)

Urban Sanitation

New-age solutions for Bangalore’s water crisis

10 Apr 2024

3 min read

Umiam lake, Shillong (Image: Vikramjit Kakati; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sustainable solutions: Meghalaya's Water Conclave 2024

27 Mar 2024

4 min read

The growing concrete jungle in Indian cities (Image Source: Amita Bhaduri)

Urban Sanitation

A Public Information System to map unplanned urbanisation in Bengaluru unveiled

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

22 Mar 2024

4 min read

Chitlapakkam lake, Chennai (Image: Destination Infinity, Wikimedia Commons)

Urban Sanitation

NGT orders response on Chennai’s Chitlapakkam lake encroachments

19 Mar 2024

5 min read

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