I am in a slum in Faridabad, India, south of New Delhi, surveying rundown toilets with a man named Mayank Midha. Behind us is a standing pond of sewage. Over to our left are the narrow alleyways and ...

A large multilevel analysis of more than 63,000 older Indian adults finds that living in communities with low toilet coverage ...

On a humid afternoon in May, a handful of local residents gathered at a one-room home in an unplanned housing settlement in Mumbai. The women greeted one another and then sat down on the small porch ...

The wees on the bus: Pink buses provide a safe and clean toilet for some Indian women AFP / Indranil MUKHERJEE Like many Indian women, college student Suvarna Dongare dreads getting caught short when ...

In 2010, Anoop Jain and two colleagues launched Sanitation and Health Rights in India, a non-governmental organization dedicated to improving sanitation and access to clean water in some of the ...

DELHI -- Naveen Arora, who is in the business of finding platforms for advertisements, is trying out something new: convincing customers that it’s okay to paste promotions on a snazzy new toilet.

If you live in developed parts of the world, beware, because this article is going to talk about two things that might make you say ew: the problem of open defecation and the use of human waste as ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday his government had built more than 20 million toilets and brought electricity to thousands of villages as he delivered an Independence Day report card.

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the United States and the European Union) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part of ...