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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))
Review of effectiveness of rural water supply schemes in India - a World Bank report
The report includes a large-scale empirical analysis of the traditional target-driven (supply-driven) Government programs and the more recent model of decentralized community-driven approaches
World Bank (WB)
Posted on 29 May, 2009 10:16 AM

This report by the World Bank includes a large-scale empirical analysis of the traditional target-driven (supply-driven) programs of the Government and the more recent model of decentralized community-driven approaches and is based on a survey that covers about 40000 rural households across 10 states in India and cov
State responsibility in drinking water sector - an overview of Indian scenario (2007)
The paper intends to portray the government's effort to provide drinking water to its population in India and show some serious policy shifts in the approach towards realisation of the goal
Meena Panickar
Posted on 27 May, 2009 03:59 PM

This paper published on the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) site examines the performance of the obligation by Indian State in terms of universalising access to drinking water to its population. 

Water tradition: the Malnad story- an article in Waternama
The article presents fascinating water conservation of Malnad to traditionally control and manage water distribution at village level
Shivananda Kalave
Posted on 21 May, 2009 01:06 PM

 
Issues and approaches for drinking water quality in rural India: a background paper by WaterAid
The paper presents challenges related to continuous water quality and quantity issues in rural India and shows the need to look for a holistic and people-centred approach for water management
Indira Khurana
Romit Sen
Posted on 20 May, 2009 11:40 AM

This background paper by WaterAid highlights the challenges involved in achieving clean drinking water supply in rural India.
Integrated and sustainable rural water management for improving water quality in Mewat, Haryana
The paper touches on key elements of sustainability pertaining to rural water management, but with greater focus on improving technical sustainability of the infrastructure, through innovations
Ellora Mubashir
Jay Sehgal
Lalit Sharma
Posted on 18 May, 2009 04:06 PM

This paper published by the Sehgal Foundation presents a case
Every drop counts: channeling rainwater and surface water to recharge groundwater- a video
Recharge groundwater by channeling rainwater and surface water through open wells
Barefoot College
Posted on 18 May, 2009 01:26 PM

'Every Drop Counts' shows how to channel rainwater and surface water to recharge groundwater via open wells. Tankas (underwater tanks) are an excellent solution to tackle water scarcity and conserve our ground water.

Courtesy- Barefoot College, Time- 11:30 minutes
Resolving the conflict over rural groundwater use between drinking water & irrigation supply – A case study by World Bank
Aquifer recharge and limited consumptive use of groundwater in agriculture can balance its supply and demand
Héctor Garduño
Stephen Foster
World Bank Global Water Partnership Associate Program
Posted on 15 May, 2009 11:55 AM

This case study deals with resolving the conflict over rural groundwater use between drinking water and irrigation supply in Tamil Nadu. In rural water-supply provision, resource availability has not received the attention it deserves.
Sustainable rural water management - a replicable case study by the Sehgal foundation
This paper touches on key elements of sustainability pertaining to rural water management, but with greater focus on improving technical sustainability of the infrastructure, through innovations.
Lalit Sharma
Jay Sehgal
Ellora Mubashir
Posted on 14 May, 2009 03:12 PM

The case study is on integrated water management in village Ghaghas, Haryana, which is replicable in general, though micro conditions in villages would be different. Often the failure of water management structures is due to lack of design for silt management.
Household water delivery options in urban and rural India – A working paper by Stanford Centre for International Development
How can India alleviate its household level drinking water deprivation, in the near-to-medium term, and in cost-effective ways?
David McKenzie
Isha Ray
Posted on 12 May, 2009 05:14 PM

This working paper by the Stanford Centre for International Development deals with household water delivery options in urban and rural India. The recent potentially far-reaching policy changes frame the paper on drinking water options for urban and rural India.  Given the primacy of drinking water as a national objective, and the policy of decentralization through community ownership, private sector participation and devolution to local governments, it asks: How can India alleviate its household level drinking water deprivation, in the near-to-medium term, and in cost-effective ways?

Waternama - a collection of traditional practices of water conservation and harvesting in Karnataka
The book produced by Communication for Development and Learning details traditional practices for water conservation and management in Karnataka
Vatsala Iyengar
Dr. S.T. Somashekara Reddy
Chandrasekhar Etadka
Sumangala
H.A.Purushottam Rao
Shylaja D.R
Poornaprajna Belur
Renuka Manjunath
Radhakrishna S. Bhadti
Ravishankar Doddamani
Harish Halemane
Ravindra Bhatta Inokai
Ghanadhalu Srikanta
Ananda Thirtha Pyati
Sripada Joshi
A.M. Veeresh
C R Nagendra Prasad
Mallikarjuna Hosapalya
Poornima K.K.
Posted on 08 May, 2009 05:16 PM

Waternama is a collection of traditional practices for water conservation and management in Karnataka. The book is produced by Communication for Development and Learning and edited by Sandhya Iyengar.
View/download the full book (29.2 MB)

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