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Do decentralised community water treatment plants improve quality and access?
Posted on 08 Nov, 2015 01:10 PMHighly advanced community level drinking water treatment facilities are increasingly being contemplated as good quality water supply solutions in locations where water sources are unreliable, and not available inside or near households.
![Safe drinking water, a scarce resource (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_1_4.jpg?itok=SmRRpx35)
What it takes to clean India
Posted on 06 Nov, 2015 12:25 PMSajan, a 14 year old Bhilala Adivasi boy studying in the Rani Kajal school in Kakrana in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh says, "We now save a lot of time as we bathe in the bathrooms and defecate in the toilets rather than in the open fields; and so we study better".
![Sewage water filter assembly in the school](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sewage_water_filter_assembly_13_boys_hostel_0.jpg?itok=8CuDpX46)
Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism
Posted on 02 Nov, 2015 01:00 PMChhattisgarh ranked number 1 in the country for providing domestic water connections in 2014-15 under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP).
![Rainwater harvesting tank at Madiya Kachar village school](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0037s.jpg?itok=iA7pgQ98)
Urban Development Ministry commissions sanitation survey across 75 major cities
Posted on 02 Nov, 2015 08:55 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9063678173_f10b551b55_z_0.jpg?itok=LDRlpriu)
Sustainable practices in slash-and-burn lands in Nagaland
Posted on 01 Nov, 2015 11:02 AMA thick smog and haze eclipse the sun all through the day when jhum areas are burnt. Jhum, known as shifting cultivation a practice practice inv
![Shifting cultivation lands (Source: Prashant N S, 2006, Wikimedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jhum-prashantns-2006-wikimedia.jpg?itok=kAJF7jYq)
Can the ‘Pad Piper’ lure away social taboos related to menstruation?
Posted on 25 Oct, 2015 09:00 AMHe wore pads, he figured out how to make them, and he's given rise to social enterprises around making biodegradable pads. Meet the 'Pad Piper' in this film by the same name.
Authored by: Manu Moudgil
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Railway stations in and around pilrimage sites to soon be 'discharge free'
Posted on 20 Oct, 2015 10:25 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_railwaysbudget.jpg?itok=Kirli4Il)
Kerala's waters polluted by perchlorate
Posted on 14 Oct, 2015 09:59 PMPerchlorate is a chemical that is extensively used in the arms and ammunition industry.
![Water contamination and health](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/open_well_8.jpg?itok=dmVSozLG)
Half of Amritsar's drinking water samples contaminated
Posted on 14 Oct, 2015 03:49 PMAccording to a United Nations Children’s Fund Resource report, 70% of India’s water supply is polluted with sewage effluents. It also ranks very low at 120 among the 122 nations in terms of quality of water available to its citizens.
![Safe drinking water, a scarce resource (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/punjab_water_0.jpg?itok=rpjCL0SI)