Waste Water

Burkina Faso’s VIPs – Very Important People Championing Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines

By Brahima Ouédraogo
For far too many households in Burkina Faso, going to the toilet means heading for the bush. The Burkinabè government has launched a new campaign to change this, calling on prominent personalities as both sponsors and champions.

India Drowning in Waste, Experts Warn

By Keya Acharya
Almitra Patel, a civil engineer by qualification, says she was first alerted to India’s huge problem of inadequate waste disposal when she noticed that the frogs in the marshlands near her farmhouse, on the city’s outskirts, had stopped croaking.

Cultivating Toxic Crops

By Irfan Ahmed
At a time when spiraling input costs and perennial shortages of irrigation water are breaking countless farmers’ backs, a small village community on the outskirts of Lahore appears to have been spared.