Wateraid

Manual scavenging, banned through a legislation in 2013, still prevailed in India due to ''weak legal protection and lack of enforcement'' of the rules, according to a new global study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others.

As many as one billion people in India live in areas of physical water scarcity, of which 600 million are in areas of high to extreme water stress, according to a new report.

India accounts for almost one-fourth of the total groundwater extracted globally, more than that of China and the US combined thus using the largest amount of groundwater 24 per cent of the global total, according to a new report.

India, the world's second-largest country by population, has the highest number of people without basic sanitation, according to a report.

India has the maximum number of people - 63 million - living in rural areas without access to clean water, according to a new global report released to mark World Water Day tomorrow.

Lauding the Clean India Mission for making a 'promising start' in providing eight million toilets in the first year, a global agency, has stressed on more funding and changing the people's behaviour to make the programme a success.

A new "eco-vapour" toilet system being tested in India uses a breathable fabric that traps human waste and allows only water vapour molecules to escape, rendering sewage less hospitable to bacteria and other disease-causing organisms.

Manual scavenging, banned through a legislation in 2013, still prevailed in India due to ''weak legal protection and lack of enforcement'' of the rules, according to a new global study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others.

As many as one billion people in India live in areas of physical water scarcity, of which 600 million are in areas of high to extreme water stress, according to a new report.

India accounts for almost one-fourth of the total groundwater extracted globally, more than that of China and the US combined thus using the largest amount of groundwater 24 per cent of the global total, according to a new report.

India, the world's second-largest country by population, has the highest number of people without basic sanitation, according to a report.

India has the maximum number of people - 63 million - living in rural areas without access to clean water, according to a new global report released to mark World Water Day tomorrow.

Lauding the Clean India Mission for making a 'promising start' in providing eight million toilets in the first year, a global agency, has stressed on more funding and changing the people's behaviour to make the programme a success.

A new "eco-vapour" toilet system being tested in India uses a breathable fabric that traps human waste and allows only water vapour molecules to escape, rendering sewage less hospitable to bacteria and other disease-causing organisms.