A survey of over 450 government schools across nine states has shown that on an average, one toilet is used by 76 boys while 66 girls make do with one washroom.

The document titled ‘The True Cost of Poor Sanitation’ was compiled by Oxford Economics to determine the link between cost of sanitation and the factors behind it.

Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister B.

Residents of these households relieve themselves in open places, drains or railway tracks.

Official records state that 28.7 of the population of people in Nigeria still practice open defecation.

Over 30 African water ministers and high-level delegations from 53 African nations have adopted a roadmap aimed at achieving sustainable and universal access to safe water and sanitation in the con

The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said 276 communities across the country have been certified open defecation-free.

RAIPUR: As district administrations across Chhattisgarh are aiming to go Open Defecation Free by August 15 and January 26, nearly 90 tribal school girls residing at a residential school in Maoist-h

India’s ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies