Pakistan’s under Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)) is committed to supply 93 percent of the population of the country with safe water and 64 percent of the population with adequate sanitation by

Pranjal Gupta, a class 5 student, prefers eating in her school canteen instead of carrying a tiffin box. Her friends in school too eat pav bhaji, vada pav or chowmein from the canteen.

The family from a nearby village arrived at the small hospital here vomiting and with uncontrollable diarrhea, at first glance maybe a typical case of consuming bad food or water.

Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive.

At least two people have died after suffering from a serious bout of diarrhea in Tilathi of Saptari district Friday.

Rancid brown water licks at Samroeng Verravanich's thighs as he wades through one of Bangkok's many flooded streets.

Peak tides tested Bangkok's flood defenses on Sunday as hope rose that the center of the Thai capital might escape the worst floods in decades, but that was little comfort for swamped suburbs and p

New Delhi: India recorded 98, 621 rotavirus-induced diarrhoea deaths in 2008, which is about 22% of global toll from the infection.

Close to one lakh children below the age of five years died of diarrhoea attributable to rotavirus infection in 2008, accounting for 22 per cent of the total deaths reported globally, reports the l

Thailand's hundreds of thousands of flood victims are at risk of water-borne diseases and infections, the World Health Organisation said Saturday, though no major outbreaks have been reported yet.