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July 28, 2024 The budget allocation for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation reflects a steady upward trajectory, underscoring the importance of scaling financial commitments to meet the growing demands of the WASH sector.
Child drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)
June 30, 2024 SHGs empower women, ensure sustainability: A model for water tax collection in Burhanpur
Rural water security (Image: Shawn, Save the Children USA; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
June 12, 2024 Leveraging research to optimise water programs for improved health outcomes in India
Closing the tap on disease (Image: Marlon Felippe; CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
March 25, 2024 Best practices and tips to reduce water consumption from Bangalore.
Saving every drop counts (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
January 7, 2024 Need to nudge state governments to evolve a detailed roadmap (planning, implementation and operations related strategies)—immediate, medium and long-term—for ensuring drinking water security.
Demand-responsive approach became the mainstay of the project with the initiation of sectoral reforms (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
December 19, 2023 This IIM Bangalore study highlights the spillover effects of public investments in rural water supply systems in the form of employment generation.
The employment structure under Jal Jeevan Mission encompasses both direct and indirect employment during construction and O&M phases. (Image: Wallpaperflare)
Seminar on introduction to Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS)
The seminar is designed for those interested in starting or strengthening household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) projects in developing countries.
Posted on 03 Aug, 2016 03:04 PM

About HWTS:

Biosand filter project implementation workshop
The biosand filter is an effective and sustainable household-level safe drinking water solution. The workshop will provide information on project implementation, technology of biosand filter.
Posted on 03 Aug, 2016 02:59 PM

About the workshop: 

Thanks to dirty water, Indian children stunted
News this week Posted on 30 Jul, 2016 11:39 PM

India has largest number of stunted children in the world: Study

Stunting in children highest in India. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
NGT questions UP on potable water to villages
Policy matters this week Posted on 24 Jul, 2016 03:30 PM

Provide potable water to villages: NGT asks UP government 

Polluted Hindon river (Source: Hindi Water Portal)
Rapar ends its long wait for water
How an arid, saline land where migration in search of water and jobs was a way of life, boasts of plenty of water now. Posted on 20 Jul, 2016 09:26 AM

Summer temperatures soar to a gruelling 50ocelsius in Rapar, a little known block in Gujarat’s Kutch district. Land here is dry, saline and arid; the monsoon is erratic. Many a times, the entire year’s rain falls in a short span of two or three days, doing more harm than good.

Rapar has many water structures now. (Source: Samerth Trust)
State does a Nero while Kharun weeps
Despite the pitiable state of a polluted Kharun, the government is keen on developing the riverfront to attract tourists. Posted on 18 Jul, 2016 09:30 AM

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear. 

― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Kharun river at Mahadev Ghat, Raipur.
Water packaging units run without licence
News this week Posted on 03 Jul, 2016 12:07 AM

Most water packaging units operating without license: FSSAI

Mineral water bottles (Source: Pixabay.com)
Pipara women realise pipe dream
Pipara village in the parched Bundelkhand region stands out for its uninterrupted water supply. The village has their women to thank for it. Posted on 01 Jul, 2016 12:03 PM

The cracks on the parched land of Bundelkhand are waiting for the monsoon to quench the thirst of its arid landscape. Despite the wide-spread drought here, Pipara, one of the villages in the region, stands apart as the only one that has not run completely dry. 

Women fill water from one of the taps at Pipara.
Rural India walks more than 500m for drinking water
News this week Posted on 25 Jun, 2016 09:13 AM

Rural India walks too far to quench their thirst

Rural India walks far to get water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Farm ponds save village from drought
Tonk Khurd’s innovative farm ponds prove that when it comes to solving water crisis, one size does not fit all. Posted on 21 Jun, 2016 09:09 AM

Vikram Patel, a 71-year-old farmer in Chidavad village of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh is one of the first farmers to have embraced the idea of farm ponds to increase the groundwater level in his farm.

Vikram Patel near his farm pond in Chidavad.
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