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July 28, 2024
Tap into the numbers: Budget insights on WASH
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)
February 14, 2024
Sustainable water management to enhance rural livelihoods
The event underlined the need to create a skilled workforce with multi-skilling abilities, embodying the concept of a one-stop-shop and service, particularly relevant for the organised sector.
The release of the reports prepared under the Jal Kaushal Project, led by the JustJobs Network and funded by Arghyam (Image: Arghyam)
January 11, 2024
Mapping the water workforce
These preliminary findings provide a roadmap for detailed research, offering insights into the jobs, tasks, and skills required to manage rural water resources in India.
Examining jobs, skills, and tasks in rural water sector (Image: JustJobs Network)
January 7, 2024
Evolution of state's role in rural drinking water governance in India
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)
October 20, 2023
Building community expertise in planning, designing, and overseeing WASH systems
A holistic approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
February 15, 2023
Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar
Design principles for operation and maintenance at scale
The programme intends to improve safe drinking water coverage in rural Bihar (Image: AKRSP(I))
Drinking water quality worst in Kerala: Report
News this week: NSSO says drinking water quality worst in Kerala, migratory birds desert flooded wetland and villagers protest against hydel project in Uttarakhand.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 29 Dec, 2013 04:50 PM

Kerala scores worst in access to potable water: NSSO
House wells not safe? (Source: Wikimedia)
A peak at the future: Simulating Coonoor’s water situation
Using computer simulation, Keystone Foundation demonstrates the impact of domestic use, tourism, plantation and farming on the water situation in Coonoor in the Nilgiris.
Balachander T
Posted on 23 Dec, 2013 03:40 PM

The Nilgiris have undergone an incredible amount of change in the last 10 years. Coonoor, an area well endowed with natural resources, is the second largest tourist destination here. However, over the last year (2012-13), the town has been reeling under a water crisis [1].
Coonoor Land Use Map
Where are the toilets?
Policy matters this week: Ministry sets up committee to investigate discrepancy in toilet data and India and Asian Development Bank fund embankments in Nepal and Assam.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 15 Dec, 2013 09:23 PM

Committee to investigate discrepancy in data on toilets
Open defecation due to lack of toilets
Indian troops polluting Siachen glacier: Pakistan
Policy matters this week: Pakistan says its main source of water supply is affected by Indian troops polluting the Siachen glacier, and Karnataka to increase the height of Almatti dam.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 09 Dec, 2013 08:24 AM

Remove troops from Siachen: Pakistan
Indian Army, Siachen Source: defenceforumindia.com
Digging them into a hole
20 years ago, Amatikra village in Chhattisgarh wasn't full of fluorosis-affected residents. Today, they walk with bent backs and have severe dental issues. What has caused this situation?
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 08 Dec, 2013 10:00 PM

45 year old Ved Prasad, a farmer in Amatikra village in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, didn't always have a bent back. 20 years ago, he walked in an upright manner but over the last five years, he's had severe back pain, which has affected his gait. 50 year old Bhola Singh from the same village has an identical story to tell.
Amatikra residents with skeletal fluorosis
Call for papers ' Aquatech India Conference, 2014', Aquatech, May 6-8, 2014
A platform to raise awareness of water supply and waste water treatment problems in India.
Posted on 28 Nov, 2013 08:27 AM

For more information on Aquatech India, please click here.

To view further details on the abstracts to be submitted, click here.
Don't have toilet, can't contest polls
Policy Matters this week: Bihar government makes toilet compulsory for contesting polls, Ganga Jal pitchers to collect religious waste and Rs 1,444 crore for rural water supply in Maharashtra.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 24 Nov, 2013 10:43 PM

Don't have toilet, can't contest polls
Toilet mandatory to contest
Call for proposals 'Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development', United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
A programme that will identify and accelerate innovative technologies and market-driven approaches that improve water sustainability for boosting food security.
Posted on 21 Nov, 2013 09:39 AM

For more information on the competition, Securing Water for Food, please click here.

For further details download the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from below.
Phailin rain increases Andhra groundwater levels
News this week: Rainfall after Phailin increases groundwater level in Andhra, poor sanitation in eastern UP and activists rise against petroleum investment zone in Visakhapatnam.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 19 Nov, 2013 10:21 AM

Phailin increases Andhra groundwater levels
Phailin raises groundwater in Andhra (EU-ECHO)
Invite to 'All India Environment And Agriculture Conference', Nature-Human Centric Peoples Movement, Lehragaga, Sangrur (Punjab)
The central idea is that the humans are facing the challenge of environment degradation with social injustice & anti-nature agriculture based on chemical and GM (Genetically Modified) technology.
Posted on 13 Nov, 2013 02:41 PM

For more infrmation on the organisation, Nature-Human Centric Peoples Movement, please click here.

To view the invitation to the conference, click here.

You may download the invitaion in Hindi from below.
All India Environment And Agriculture Conference
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