Open Defecation

10pc villagers defecate in the open

About 23 percent rural people use unhygienic toilets while 10 percent villagers defecate in the open in Bangladesh, reveals a survey.

Publication Date:

20/10/2011

Source: Daily Star (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Bangladesh, Toilets, Open Defecation, Sanitation, Slums

Water Pollution

Correlation of antibiotics resistance profiling of E.Coli and source of fecal pollution in water

Determination of source of fecal pollution in rural water by the use of antibiotic resistance profiling is promising and the patterns of MAR in different animal populations vary according to the types and quantities of agent used.

Publication Date:

01/07/2008

Author(s): D. H. Tambekar, S. J. Wankhade, S. D. Yadav & et al

Source: Pollution Research

Vol:

27

Issue:

3

pp:

507

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Purna, Water Quality, Open Defecation, Waste Disposal, Akola (D), Buldana (D)

Sanitation

How Successful Is Prime Minister's 100 Per cent Toilets-In-Schools Promise?

In October last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat campaign, there was one thing he did differently as a politician. He set a target to achieve 100 per cent toilets in every school across the country till Independence Day in 2015. That was more than 4 lakh toilets. It's a massive number and the Prime Minister apparently monitored it personally. It seems the target has been achieved this week, but is it really the toilet dream that is being promised?

Tags:

Sanitation, Open Defecation, Toilets, Children, Child Health, Education, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India

Sanitation