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It reflects the relationships among sanitation, patriarchy, social norms, and cultural beliefs about purity and gender ...

Improvement of water and sanitation conditions may reduce infant mortality, particularly in countries like India where open defecation is highly prevalent. We conducted a quasi-experimental study to ...

Data from Karnataka shows almost all villages declared OD under Swachh Bharat Mission with only 79 still reporting open ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - India aims to eradicate open-air defecation by 2012 by building toilets for hundreds of millions of its poor and homeless, well ahead of a global deadline to do so, a ...

Nagpur: Several residential pockets of Sahakar Nagar and adjoining localities continue to grapple with garbage piles, construction debris, and open defecation even as the 15-day environmental ...

Kolkata: West Bengal govt will begin imposing spot fines for open defecation, public urination, littering, illegal dumping of waste, use of banned plastic carry bags and spitting in public places in a ...