Slums

17 dengue cases in Mohali district, MP says fumigate slum areas

The spread of dengue in the district dominated a meeting of the Vigilance Committee of the Municipal Corporation on Tuesday.

Publication Date:

16/09/2015

Source: Indian Express (Chandigarh)

Tags:

Punjab, Mohali (D), Dengue, Slums, Vector Borne Diseases, Health Effects, Health

Water Supply

Zambian capital can't quench thirst of its booming population

LUSAKA, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dorothy Zulu's dream is to have a water tap and a small vegetable garden in her home in Ngombe, one of many slums in Zambia's capital Lusaka.

Publication Date:

14/09/2015

Source: Reuters

Tags:

Water Supply, Drinking Water, Water Quality, Zambia, Slums, Urbanisation, Africa

Sanitation

Modelling the impact of sanitation, population growth and urbanization on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters—a case study for Bangladesh and India

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization and population growth on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters. We build on a global model by Hofstra et al and zoom into Bangladesh and India as illustrative case studies.

Original Source

Publication Date:

11/09/2015

Author(s): Lucie C Vermeulen, Jelske de Kraker, Nynke Hofstra & et al

Source: Environmental Research Letters

Vol:

10

Issue:

9

pp:

1-12

Tags:

Sanitation, Diarrhoea, Waterborne diseases, Urbanisation, Population Trends, India, Bangladesh, South Asia, Water Pollution, Water Quality, Urban Sanitation, Faecal Coliforms, Slums

Environment

Remit Rs 3 crore to environmental relief fund, National Green Tribunal tells builder

MUMBAI: The National Green Tribunal, in a landmark order, directed a developer to remit Rs 3 crore towards the environmental relief fund and stopped the construction and sale of a slum rehabilitati

Publication Date:

09/09/2015

Author(s): Swati Deshpande, Clara Lewis

Source: Times Of India (Mumbai)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Environment Clearance (EC), Construction Industry, Slums, Rehabilitation, Environment, Regulations, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Floor Space Index (FSI), Buildings

Habitat And Urbanisation

Despite conservation claims, State houses almost 582 slums

While the State Government claims to be working on conservation of environment, planned development and boosting tourism in Uttarakhand, the number of slum settlements across the State present a pi

Publication Date:

08/09/2015

Source: Pioneer (Dehradun)

Tags:

Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Slums, Tourism, Nainital (D), Land Encroachments, Relocation, Habitat And Urbanisation

Water Supply

‘Legal water connection to all Dhaka slums by December’

The managing director of Dhaka Wasa yesterday said all slum dwellers in the capital would be provided with the amenity of legal water supply by this December.

Publication Date:

08/09/2015

Source: Dhaka Tribune (Dhaka)

Tags:

Water Supply, Drinking Water, Dhaka, Slums, Bangladesh, South Asia

Solid Waste

Railway litterbugs plead leniency before NGT

Tribunal directs them to pay Rs.1,000 instead of Rs.5,000 to the Railways

Publication Date:

03/09/2015

Author(s): Akanksha Jain

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Rail Transport, Garbage, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Sanitation, Slums, Solid Waste

Climate Change

Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This paper attempts to identify a strategy for improving collaboration between stakeholders working in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector, with a focus on the urban poor.

Publication Date:

01/09/2015

Author(s): Sarder Shafiqul Alam, ATM Jahangir Alam, Sowmen Rahman

Source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Tags:

Climate Change, Urbanisation, Water Supply, Sanitation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Slums, Health, NGOs

Sanitation

Understanding issues involved in toilet access for women

While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going to dysfunctional toilets, particularly by women. By analysing the practices and problems associated with toilet use from a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to situate the issue in the everyday lives of women.

Publication Date:

22/08/2015

Author(s): Aarushie Sharma, Asmita Aasaavari, Srishty Anand

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

50

Issue:

34

pp:

7-74

Tags:

Toilets, Women, Sanitation, Delhi, Slums, Urban Sanitation