Sanitation

Zimbabwe has banned street food vendors in the capital Harare after a typhoid outbreak blamed on poor sanitation and erratic water supplies.

We're living in times when a majority of the world's population does not have access to drinking water and the kind that is available is seriously questionable. In such a situation, any kind of development ...

Dirty water and poor sanitation are at the root of problems such as maternal and child mortality, and sexual violence.

A lack of drinking water and poor sanitation in Yemen are likely to lead to a rise in chronic malnutrition with children under five most at risk, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said.

The proportion of anaemic, pregnant women dropped 12 percentage points over a decade to 2015, government health data show, but India still has more anaemic women than any other country and a prevalence rate above ...

Hand sanitisers can do more harm than good to your children. Scientists have discovered that children may be tempted to swallow the substance leading to nausea and pain.

Cholera is a water-borne disease therefore safe water and sanitation is critical to control the disease.

As per a shocking report released by World Health Organization, it was revealed that environmental pollutants lead to the death of up to 1.7 million children under five, each year.

Every year, 22nd March is celebrated as World Water Day to create awareness about the urgency and need to make clean drinking water and good sanitation and hygiene facilities available to all.

Practice basic hygiene and sanitation to avoid falling prey to bacterial viral invasion.