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Open defecation free' status of villages to be verified by state governments
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 09:29 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2366204790_ca2c825712_z_0.jpg?itok=SIO6s2M0)
Community involvement key to successful water quality interventions
Posted on 20 Sep, 2015 10:07 PMRecent evidence shows that as high as 95% of diarrheal deaths among children under the age of 5 can be prevented by water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related interventions that include handwashing, proper excreta disposal and most importantly improved water quality.
![Water quality and health impacts (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water_1_2.jpg?itok=M4OO95jB)
Piped water scheme changes the lives of Odisha villagers
Posted on 19 Sep, 2015 05:55 PMIn India, about Rs.70,000 crore
![Anup Munda showing his functional toilet at Bandha Bhuin](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0155es.jpg?itok=66FjeYB7)
Fact Checker's random school survey casts serious doubts about the government's 100% toilet coverage claim
Posted on 14 Sep, 2015 10:06 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/School-toilets1.jpg?itok=OXqTgIxV)
Direct discharge of human waste from railway coaches onto the tracks makes the National Green Tribunal very unhappy
Posted on 07 Sep, 2015 10:16 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/clean_0.jpg?itok=XqlngVSX)
Nepal earthquake affected women more than men
Posted on 05 Sep, 2015 12:32 PMApril 25, 2015 dawned as any other ordinary day in Nepal. Until 11.56. Then, a massive earthquake of magnitude 7.9 rattled the country and shook its very foundation. The tremors travelled outwards from the epicentre at Barpak Gorkha district moving the earth, distorting buildings, causing convulsions on the ground and creating panic and mayhem all around.
![A family beside a damaged house near Naglebhare, Nepal (Source :Asian Development Bank)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_0.jpg?itok=hwhcon5P)
Kaun kitne paani mein: Movie review
Posted on 28 Aug, 2015 06:45 PM‘Kitna shaant hai ye paani, aur iske liye yeh rajniti’ (the water is so still, yet there is politics around it).
![Water scarcity becomes a source of conflict between two villages (Source: Facebook)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kaun_kitne_pani_mein_0.jpg?itok=tZpiY55L)
Water problems with quality and access plague Sambalpur, Odisha
Posted on 27 Aug, 2015 04:00 PMIt's been more than 15 days and the drinking water crisis in Talabeda village in Sambalpur, Odisha is yet to be addressed. The water supply system of the village collapsed due to a fault in the transformer located within the premises of the Talabeda pump house, and no one has the time to fix this and restart the water supply system.
![The colour of the tiles around the public stand-post at Talabeda, Odisha have changed from white to red due to iron contamination.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0058tps.jpg?itok=UFjfZ0lZ)
Water poverty in Mumbai slum
Posted on 27 Aug, 2015 01:42 PMOne characteristic of most Indian slums is their inadequate access to water, which has a serious impact on the health of its residents. Most of the research on water service delivery in slums until recently has focused on water quality and health outcomes, especially diarrhoeal illnesses.
![An illegal settlement (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/slum_0.jpg?itok=Qegn7A_c)