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Jal Jeevan Mission: Will piped water to every household no longer be a pipe dream?
Posted on 14 Mar, 2020 04:26 PMMillions of Indian women can take up to six trips a day to gather and transport water, which takes up a major part of their day. During scorching summers when many sources dry up, their drudgery gets even worse.
![A school boy from Tilonia in semi-arid region of Rajasthan drinks from a tap from a rainwater harvesting tank that provides clean drinking water. (Image: Barefoot photographers of Tilonia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap-water.jpg?itok=fRxWZL1R)
Women lead the way in water quality surveillance
Posted on 06 Mar, 2020 01:45 PMHistorically, water is a gendered burden, with women being the primary caregivers responsible for cooking, washing and cleaning chores in the house and in modern times in institutions (teachers, anganwadi and healthcare workers). Women have traditionally been associated with various water related tasks - be it collecting, fetching, or purifying water.
![Organised under WaterAid India’s partnership with GAP, water testing workshop (2019) held in Indore district aimed at training women and youth to lead the entire process of community water management – from planning to supply, operations and maintenance and to educate communities on water-quality issues. (Image: WaterAid India/Ashima Narain)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wai1.jpg?itok=FVFEjRSY)
Bringing back the trust: Getting our belief back in public water supply systems
Posted on 06 Mar, 2020 01:01 PMThe Government of India has passed a draft notification to bar membrane based systems such as Reverse Osmosis (RO) to be used as domestic purifiers in cities where the tap water is safe according to the Burea
![Is our tap water really safe? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drinking_water1_1.jpg?itok=M38KTsKL)
The miserable plight of sanitation workers
Posted on 29 Feb, 2020 06:01 PMMany of the challenges sanitation workers face, stem from their lack of visibility in society, says a report ‘Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers’ produced jointly by The World Bank,
![A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India (Image: WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid-cs_sharada_prasad.jpg?itok=us6DmgNs)
Suffering in silence: Migrant cane cutters of Maharashtra
Posted on 27 Feb, 2020 10:04 PMMaharashtra is the second largest sugar producing state in India, after Uttar Pradesh where as high as 1.6 million farmers cultivate sugarcane on 0.7 million hectares of land. The sugarcane industry provides direct employment to about 0.16 million workers while 1.5 million workers engage in sugarcane harvesting and transport operations every year.
![Women workers suffer the most (Image Source: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/budget1_1.jpg?itok=nFOOYSao)
Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox
Posted on 24 Feb, 2020 12:55 PMSurrounded by vast expanses of water, the Kuttanad region in Alleppey district, Kerala faces severe drinking water scarcity due to infrastructure failure and civic body inaction.
![Lack of sufficient quality water, poor pipe connectivity and frequent breakdown of existing pipelines are common in the area (Image: Jayasree Vaidyanathan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pipe.jpg?itok=2mf1p4dU)
Community water purification system in a Delhi urban slum
Posted on 22 Feb, 2020 12:38 PMIt’s a dull reality that the state of water in the urban slum of Lalbagh near Azadpur in north Delhi was awful till a few years back. Hoards of people would queue up to get water from the public taps or the tankers along the road. Life was tough here and people got access to piped water supply only recently.
![Once selected for the role, the women entrepreneurs were trained to run the community filtration plant and overlook all operations ranging from the management of customers to the plant finances. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/asbah_0.jpg?itok=OxbVguSG)
Overcoming heavy odds to emerge as a WATSAN model
Posted on 17 Feb, 2020 04:18 PMKotda village provides an inspiring example of how a village suffering from teething troubles in the critical areas of water and sanitation can emerge as a model water and sanitation village. Located in Mangrol block of Junagadh district, from a distance this village presents a lush green appearance because of an abundance of coconut trees.
![AKRSP has promoted rainwater harvesting to address the issue of scarce potable water at Mangrol. By encouraging households to collect rainwater using pipes on their roofs which then drain into an underground tank they have been able to promote water security. (Image: Aga Khan Foundation Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mangrol.jpg?itok=fKFm-VCl)
Decoding budget 2020
Posted on 10 Feb, 2020 04:35 PM“Every single number in the budget, be it receipts or expenditure is a lie. The budget numbers can no longer be trusted, as the difference between actual expenditure and budget estimates are off by around 25 percent.
![Woman farmer sifting grain (Image: Ray Witlin/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sifting_grain.jpg?itok=0rLjuCR3)
Micropollutants in groundwater, a grave concern
Posted on 30 Jan, 2020 01:03 PMGroundwater pollution due to organic micropollutants is becoming a major cause of concern in many parts of the world, where water resources are on the decline. India is the largest user of groundwater and the presence of micropollutants in groundwater has been a growing concern. What do studies on micropollutants in groundwater in India show?
![Groundwater contamination, a serious concern (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/groundwater_8.jpg?itok=4g7V6uAQ)