NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - India aims to eradicate open-air defecation by 2012 by building toilets for hundreds of millions of its poor and homeless, well ahead of a global deadline to do so, a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - One billion people worldwide still practise "open defecation" and they need to be told that this leads to the spread of fatal diseases, U.N. experts said on Thursday at the launch ...

Progress, challenges, and the road forward in India’s sanitation mission ...

From open defecation and waste burning to industrial dumping and cattle bathing, Delhi’s Munak Canal – a critical lifeline supplying raw water to the Capital – is choked with pollution. A new report ...