No water security without water quality
A study points out that pit latrines with onsite sanitation systems are a source of groundwater contamination.
Unsanitary conditions lead to groundwater contamination. (Image: SuSanA Secretariat, Attribution [CC BY 2.0])
Breeding climate resilience
Scientists come up with two variables to assess resilience of indigenous breeds of goats against climate change.
Osmanabadi breed, one of the breeds of goats studied for its climate resilience. (Pic courtesy: ISW)
Safe water to fight fluorosis
What Basubai and her children needed to fight fluorosis was access to safe drinking water.
Village woman shows her fluorosis-affected teeth. (Pic courtesy: PSI)
Setting safe sanitation example
Villager builds twin pit latrine and sets example for others on behaviour change and safe sanitation.
Manohar's twin pit latrine gets constructed. (Pic courtesy: PSI)
Micro loans, mega gains
MHT helps reduce drudgery of women in a resettlement colony by providing finances for water and sanitation facilities.
MHT organises poor women around habitat issues in a resettlement colony in Delhi. (Pic: India Water Portal)
Solar water purifier with a difference
With no electricity required and no wastewater, the new purifier works even under cloudy conditions and diffused solar radiation.
NARI solar water purifier (Pic courtesy: ISW)
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