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Sanitation and Hygiene
Telangana government, tribals oppose uranium mining in Nallamala forests
Posted on 17 Sep, 2019 05:11 PMTelangana government, tribals stand against proposed uranium mining in Nallamala forests
![A view of the Nallamala Forests (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/800px-nallamala_view.jpg?itok=GIEDFgvV)
Centre promises 43 to 55 litres water per person per day to 15 crore rural households by 2024
Posted on 03 Sep, 2019 10:07 PMCentre to provide 43-55 litre/day water per person to rural households by 2024
![Image used for representational purposes only. Photo credit: Shree Padre, water journalist from India Water Portal on Flickr](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2420904081_e2135f02fa_z.jpg?itok=pc_ZQcCg)
What’s shit got to do with child health?
Posted on 02 Sep, 2019 06:35 PMA pig snorts after emerging from the open drain that passes through a slum in the Digha area of south Patna. Small children crawl on the road nearby with slime dribbling from their nose.
![Studies indicate that more children stunted in India than in sub-Saharan Africa (Image: MOSPI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/children_1.jpg?itok=AwLt_h6R)
Water in Pune’s urban quagmire
Posted on 02 Sep, 2019 12:01 PMDrinking water programs in India treat urban and rural areas separately, generally neglecting the special characteristics of settlements referred to as peri-urban – those on the outskirts or peripheries of urban areas, or “rurban” settlements i.e. rural areas with urban facilities.
![A street in the city of Poonah [Pune] in 1871 (Image: Lester John Frederick, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pune_1871_street_scene_lester_john_frederick_british_library_collection.jpg?itok=ld9lf4TZ)
Government to spend Rs 3.5 trillion to provide potable water
Posted on 21 Aug, 2019 11:14 PMGovernment to spend Rs 3.5 trillion under Jal Jeevan Mission: PM Modi
![Women filling water from a tap (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0063es_1.jpg?itok=5bgMnVGp)
Beyond the death toll: The everyday violence of Assam’s floods
Posted on 19 Aug, 2019 12:53 PMFloods are an annual phenomenon in Assam. They are as integral to the state as the Brahmaputra River is, and each monsoon, we are reminded that Assam exists (or is drowning). As I write this piece, Assam is slowly recovering from the first wave of flood this monsoon.
![Floods in Majuli Assam (Image: Mitul Baruah)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/majuli_flood_photo_mitul_baruah_0.jpg?itok=0dbnWvKp)
Rural sanitation: A charter of demands
Posted on 31 Jul, 2019 02:08 PMThere are studies and field reports that have analysed the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in terms of coverage and use of toilets in rural India.
![Raibari Bewa standing near the toilet, bathroom unit and collecting water from the third tap in Dudukaguda village, in Thuamul Rampur block, Kalahandi district of Odisha. On the walls, details of Swachh Bharat Mission benefits availed by her in Odia | Picture courtesy: Ajaya Behera](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/woman-in-odisha-standing-next-to-a-toilet_rural-sanitation_gram-vikas-1024x684.jpg?itok=sdAZoGL4)
Meghalaya draft water policy, Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill both get approval
Posted on 16 Jul, 2019 10:34 PMMeghalaya's draft water policy gets approval
![Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been fighting over Cauvery water sharing for a long time (Source: Wikipedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cauvery_river_7727180738.jpg?itok=ieKycBNP)
Budget 2019 talks big on water
Posted on 10 Jul, 2019 02:04 PMNirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister alluded to gaon, garib and kisan as the centre of all policies of this government, while announcing a clutch of schemes aimed at the rural and urban poor.
![Indian children tapping water (Image: Global Water Partnership, Flickr Commons, CC BY NC-SA 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/indian-children-tapping-water.jpg?itok=otjkRpho)
Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
![A woman from the Ahir tribe at Chapredi village, east of Bhuj with cotton husks. (Image: Meena Kadri, Flickr Commons, CC BY-ND 2.0](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/womn_cotton.jpg?itok=1kOucera)