Soldiers deployed in remote places hardly ever have easy access to clean drinking water. Those manning posts at high altitudes are often compelled to carry bottles of drinking water along with other ...

Using old saris to filter drinking water collected from rivers and ponds has halved the number of cholera cases in remote Bangladeshi villages. “Many, many lives could be saved” by this cheap and ...

Cholera is a waterborne disease that causes severe diarrhoea. It kills tens of thousands of people a year world-wide. Scientists have long known that the bacteria that cause cholera live in a mutually ...

Water is something that's easy to take for granted, especially in a developed country where the taps run clean and clear. But the story is very different in the rest of the world, where nearly one ...