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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))
Learning their way to water security and better incomes
Facilitating varied interventions to improve the health of the village commons
Nishtha Relan
Mukti Masih
Posted on 24 Apr, 2023 02:10 PM

The community in Undakhora, a village of 250 households in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan, has made significant strides towards resilience by practising sustainable agriculture, harvesting water and ensuring social security over the past 10 years.
Pastureland (Image: FES)
Making rural India water smart
Will it be possible to incentivise and nudge rural communities towards adopting water-smart attitudes and behaviours while getting access to investments and benefits?
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 16 Mar, 2023 04:41 PM

Poor management of water and  over dependence on groundwater is making India a water stressed country, which can spell doom for agricultural productivity. How India manages and governs water will be important in the future. Adopting water smart attitudes and behaviours by rural communities is crucial. How can that be achieved? This book shows the way.
Water smart attitudes to manage water demand in rural India (Image Source: India Water Portal)
Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar
Design principles for operation and maintenance at scale
Manu Srivastava
Umesh Desai
Vivek Sharan
Posted on 15 Feb, 2023 12:12 PM

Bihar pioneered water supply connections to every rural household under the Mukhya Mantri Gramin Peyjal Nishchay Yojana.
The programme intends to improve safe drinking water coverage in rural Bihar (Image: AKRSP(I))
Budget 2023-24: Drinking water supply and sanitation continues to get priority
Budgetary allocations for urban sanitation get an impetus, but Swachh Bharat Mission – Rural (SBM-R) records no change in its budgetary allocation
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA)
Posted on 07 Feb, 2023 01:38 PM

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene are pillars that improve the quality of life and enhance the 'ease of living' of people, especially in rural areas. In this regard, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) has made significant progress in providing drinking water and safe sanitation to rural households.
An amount of Rs 1840 crore has been approved to effecvely implement Water Security Plans through convergence of ongoing/new schemes (Image: Pavitra K B Rao, Wikimedia Commons)
Union Budget 2023-24: A detailed analysis with a water lens
A detailed analysis of Union Budget 2023-24 from the water lens
Parteek Kumar
Posted on 03 Feb, 2023 11:51 AM

Having its domain in agriculture and allied activities, rural development, drinking water and sanitation, energy and transportation sector, water resources are quite crucial for an economy of a state. A union budget other than making financial provisions, also tells us about the vision of a government.
(Image: Utthan/India Water Portal Flickr)
Professionalizing Water Quality Management by empowered stakeholders
Online Water Quality Management (WQM) Course for JJM
Nanak Santdasani
Sunderajan Krishnan
Posted on 29 Dec, 2022 07:12 PM

Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is an aspirational programme aiming to provide functional tap water connections to every household in rural India, ensuring access to adequate safe water.
Water Quality Champions, in the making (Image Source: INREM Foundation)
Evaluating WaSH conditions spatially at the panchayat level
Synthesis of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) spatial pattern in rural India: an integrated interpretation of WaSH practices
Ankita Pran Dadhich
Pran N Dadhich
Rohit Goyal
Posted on 15 Oct, 2022 03:38 PM

Rural areas largely lack access to improved drinking water-sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) facilities in India. Improved WaSH facilities are vital to prevent the transmission of waterborne diseases and create resilient communities.
People in rural areas lack potable water, and use unsafe sanitation and hygiene facilities (Image: Sebastian Dahl)
Water conservation and NREGA in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh
NREGA has emerged as a go-to scheme for water conservation in tribal areas leading to higher irrigation coverage and thus augmenting agricultural production
Manish Dungdung
Posted on 10 Oct, 2022 09:58 PM

Out of India’s total population of 1210.19 million, 104 million, i.e., 8.6% are tribal (Census, 2011), India has one of the highest diversity among the tribes in the world. Broadly tribal inhabit two distinct geographical areas – the Central Indian Tribal Belt and the North-East.
The treatment must be on an area basis; both community and individual lands must be treated. (Image: AKRSP)
India's plastic ban fails to curb plastic pollution
News this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 09 Oct, 2022 07:49 PM

Experts call India’s single use plastic ban weak, argue that it targets the most vulnerable
Plastic menace in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)
Disabled, elderly, and vulnerable will soon have easy access to piped water
Policy matters this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 25 Aug, 2022 02:57 PM

Centre releases draft guidelines of piped water supply for disabled, elderly and vulnerable groups
A child having disability. Photo for representation only. (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
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