Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way ahead The Bihar deluge is here again: Water levels in several rivers have risen dangerously and breached embankments at many places. North Bihar is the worst threatened by floods in the state.… Continue reading Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system
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Toilets that churn gold for the soil
Nidhi Jamwal On an average, the annual faecal matter and urine of one human being contains 4.6 kg nitrogen, 0.6 kg phosphorous and 1.3 kg potassium, all recyclable. Till two years ago, Kairi, a Tharu tribe village of 138 families in Pashchim Champaran, Bihar, did not have even a single toilet. Fed up of the… Continue reading Toilets that churn gold for the soil
Wedded to uncertainty: Stories of women married into families in the floodplains of Bihar, India
Amitangshu Acharya As Bihar is deluged again this year, with 89 lives lost so far, here are stories and images of survival, loss and resilience on villages near Gandak river basin One fateful night in August 2013, Gandak River breached the Gopalganj highway in Bihar and made its way through a small habitation called Karisakatola,… Continue reading Wedded to uncertainty: Stories of women married into families in the floodplains of Bihar, India
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