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Gendered impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic affects rural women disproportionately with damaging impacts on their employment, health and security.

The time-use survey indicates that women are now spending more time on unpaid domestic and care work (Image: Sunita, Pixabay)

MNREGA helps a village in Bihar become flood proof

United action of locals, wisdom of the village head and MNREGA help to deal with waterlogging in a village in Bihar.

MNREGA comes to the rescue of Harpur Bochha (Source: Umesh Kumar Ray)

Decision Support Space: A concept

Are we wired to make bad decisions and how can a Decision Support Space (DSSpace) facilitate better decision-making about water systems in India?

Decision-making on water is a multifaceted and cognitively overwhelming process (Image: Lolame, Pixabay)

आज भी खरे है तालाब-अध्याय 2 नींव से शिखर तक संगीतमय वाचन

गंगा को साफ करने में लग सकते है कई दशक

Farm ponds need pondering

While farm ponds have often been depicted as magic wands to deal with water scarcity, experiences in Maharashtra show otherwise.

Farm ponds, often touted as magic wands to tackle water scarcity, have raised a number of concerns (Image Source: Ninad Sargar)

Improving city-wide sanitation service delivery in small towns of Odisha

Project Nirmal demonstrates appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha.

Community meetings in the slums of Dhenkanal under Project Nirmal (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)

Sanitation empowered her

Community response to the slum sanitation improvement project hinges on grassroots leadership in a slum settlement in Dhenkanal.

As a part of Project Nirmal, community structures including Slum Sanitation Committees (SSCs) and Ward Sanitation Committees (WSCs) were constituted at the slum and ward level (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)

बिहार बाढ़ः नुकसान को कम करने के लिये अत्याधुनिक तकनीक का होगा इस्तेमालः संजय कुमार झा

नोलेज सेंटर का शिलान्यास करते हुए संजय कुमार झा

Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion

River erosion, so intense, that the whole village is in danger. As the government’s help seems a distant dream, locals carry out Satyagrah to expose their plight to the authorities.

Satyagrah by the river (Image source: Umesh K Ray)

Uttarakhand: Reaching the unreached

PSI addresses the shortage of safe drinking water in remote Uttarakhand villages through a participatory community-based approach to springshed management.