Manisha Shah
The Onus is on us
Posted on 22 Mar, 2024 10:36 AMWorld Water Day 2024 couldn’t have a better timing, at least for Bengaluru, which is facing one of the worst water crisis in its history, and there is no respite in sight at least for a few more months. We need more discussions and focus on water now, and not just from sector experts but from every user of the resource.
Women shaping India’s water security through social enterprises
Posted on 06 Mar, 2024 02:27 PMWhen it comes to water management, we have predominantly covered the work of civil society actors and government in the past. But in recent years, we have seen several highly innovative market based approaches to solving India’s water security challenges.
Ensuring sustainability of rural drinking water systems
Posted on 01 Dec, 2023 04:48 PMBackground
Recent data shows that the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has covered more than 70 percent of the habitations in terms of connecting households, and the need for understanding the field implementation issues particularly in terms of long-term sustainability of this exercise is enormous.
Building the water quality champions cohort in Jharkhand
Posted on 27 Jun, 2023 09:33 PMJharkhand State is on the journey of ensuring the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accreditation of their laboratories and recently completed the accreditation of 29 labs in the state for water quality testing on a mission mode.
A large-scale training program that actually delivered results
Posted on 21 Mar, 2023 07:58 PMThe context
The water that you eat
Posted on 06 Dec, 2022 11:38 AMWhat was your water consumption today?
If I were to quickly calculate this, I would add up the litres of water I drank, the water I used up in cooking, washing, cleaning, and bathing; and quickly tell you that I used up around 80 litres of water. Your total would also be somewhere in the ballpark.
One water, one data
Posted on 25 May, 2022 02:58 PMAny large-scale water security program by the government needs two things: [i] continuous data - given the dynamic nature of water - its annual replenishment depends on how much rainfall occurs and what farmers decide to grow in that agricultural cycle; and [ii] people who understand this data and continue to maintain the implementation post-intervention.
Women at the frontline of climate change adaptation
Posted on 19 Mar, 2022 04:23 PMKalyani Dash, Soudamini Rout, and Gita Rani Satpathy are three women from Odisha w
Understanding the thinking behind IEC in large programs
Posted on 04 Oct, 2021 03:24 PMOur governing ministries in the Centre and in States plan several programs every year for the overall betterment of lives and livelihoods of the masses, and many of them require people to under
Is climate action at scale a possibility?
Posted on 28 Sep, 2021 09:07 PMThe recently released report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has portrayed a devastating picture of the world that our