Rod Stewart unveils boombox-shaped toilet at Glastonbury to promote clean water accessA giant boombox-shaped toilet co-designed by Sir Rod Stewart has been installed at Glastonbury Festival by WaterAid to raise awareness abou...
PepsiCo aims to be net water positive by 2030Its philanthropic arm, The PepsiCo Foundation, is also launching a new USD 1 million programme with NGO WaterAid to bring safe water to fam...
PepsiCo Foundation to invest USD 3 million for safe water accessBesides, it will also establish community-managed water distribution systems in these communities, it added. The fresh investment in India ...
At Capgemini’s tech hackathon, 55 finalists compete to solve India's water crisisCapgemini’s Tech Challenge 2019 had the participants tackle one of the biggest threats the world is facing.
PepsiCo Foundation announces $4.26 mn grant to NGO WaterAidIn a release, the Foundation said these solutions would help improve water security and also promote water conservation and recharge measur...
India extracts more groundwater than China-US, says studyA total of 163 million people in India have no access to clean water close to home, or 15 per cent of all rural residents and seven per cen...
63 million in India do not have access to clean waterLack of government planning, competing demands, rising population and water-draining agricultural practices are all placing increasing stra...
India has most urban-dwellers without sanitation: ReportWaterAid's Director of Programmes & Policy, Avinash Kumar, said India's rapid and unplanned urbanisation has resulted in various developmen...
India has most number of stunted children in world: StudyThe report said 48 million children in India, suffer from stunted growth, affecting their physical as well as cognitive and emotional devel...
76 million people in India have no access to safe water: ReportIndia has the highest number of --7.6 million--people in the world without access to safe water supply, followed by China and Nigeria, a Wa...
Clean India mission has made a 'promising start': WaterAidLauding the Clean India Mission for making a 'promising start' in providing eight million toilets in the first year, a global agency, has s...
80% of India’s surface water may be polluted, report by international body saysEven as India is making headlines with its rising air pollution levels, the water in the country may not be any better.
- 80% of India’s surface water may be polluted, report by international body says
Even as India is making headlines with its rising air pollution levels, the water in the country may not be any better.
Singapore can offer lessons in sanitation: StudyPrime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an ambitious Clean India campaign last year to achieve total sanitation by 2019.
Budget 2015: 2% Swachh Bharat cess, 100% deduction on investment in KoshJaitley further proposed to an enabling provision to levy Swachh Bharat Cess at a rate of 2 per cent or less on all or certain services, if...
Kolkata to host 14th World Congress on Public HealthWith Brazil as the partner nation, around 60 other countries along with 2,000 delegates including representatives from the WHO-SEARO.
- Women economists urge policy makers to end global sanitation crisis
An international group of 34 woman economists has written an open letter to the prime ministers and presidents of various nations, includin...