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Sanitation and Hygiene
Palwal puts Game Theory to practice
Posted on 21 May, 2018 09:27 PMAt just 24 years of age, Abhinav Vats has learnt a lot as the chief minister’s Good Governance Associate (CMGGA) posted in Palwal district of Haryana. An economics graduate from Delhi University, he worked as a research analyst with McKinsey and Company at Gurgaon for two-and-a-half years before deciding to be a CMGGA.
![Women participate enthusiastically in the ‘Palwal super village challenge’ for last mile delivery of rural development schemes. (Pic courtesy: Abhinav Vats)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_led_mobilization_for_women_empowerment_anganwdi_shg_parameters.jpg?itok=wYUK7KtI)
Hyderabad's sewage-filled drains cleaned manually
Posted on 15 May, 2018 07:50 AMAhead of monsoon, workers made to clean stormwater drains filled with sewage in Hyderabad
![Manual scavenging in a new avatar (Picture courtesy: The New Indian Express)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/manual_scavenging_hyderabad.jpg?itok=SFsKIc2k)
Where the mind is without fear
Posted on 09 May, 2018 08:49 PMPhoolbasan Yadav from the remote Sukaldaihan village in the Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh shot to fame for her untiring effort in empowering the women of her village. "Since my childhood, I had experienced extreme poverty and hunger, and I feel that similar is the plight of lakhs of women in the country.
![Phoolbasan Yadav (right) receives Padmshree from President Pratibha Patil in 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/uuotcrao_400x400.jpg?itok=VZKdoJT_)
Call for Admissions for Graduate Program of Water Science and Policy 2018 at Shiv Nadar University
Posted on 08 May, 2018 03:59 PMEntering its second year, the Graduate Program of Water Science and Policy 2018 at Shiv Nadar University envisages a multi-disciplinary classroom, engagement and content delivered by some of the best minds globally – experts on water who have worked on ground realities, made policies and initiated change.
Delhi against in-principle nod for alternate landfill sites
Posted on 08 May, 2018 11:09 AMDelhi government opposes in-principle approval for two landfill sites on Yamuna floodplains
![Delhi's garbage (Picture courtesy: Hindustan Times)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/landfills_delhi.jpg?itok=fOcY4lAT)
Corporate hand in sustainable WASH
Posted on 07 May, 2018 11:34 AMDespite making sanitation a national priority with Swachh Bharat Mission, 50 percent of India defecated in the open till 2014. The goal to make India open defecation free by 2019 seemed ambitious. The government provided funding but it also sought active participation from the corporate sector.
![Without behaviour change, toilet infrastructure created will remain only structures that will never be used. (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/toilet1_2.jpg?itok=qZnGHacX)
Sewage management: Govt’s elephant in the room
Posted on 06 May, 2018 11:25 AMIndia’s sanitation crisis involves huge cost. Transforming the country’s sanitation and waste management by 2019 is tall order.
![Sewage treatment plant in Kavoor, Mangalore installed under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project. (Image: Asian Development Bank)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mangalore-stp.jpg?itok=T1QBhvRW)
Treating waste with worms
Posted on 03 May, 2018 07:15 AMEarthworms are considered best friends of farmers, acting as engineers in soils. They are helpful in the decomposition of waste, producing biofertilisers.
![Organic waste can be efficiently decomposed with the help of earthworms. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/25774129708_91c63e4a05_z.jpg?itok=VzdH0kya)
Anicuts affect Mahanadi's flow
Posted on 26 Apr, 2018 01:02 PMGopal Nishad, a fisherman in his early 40s, is frustrated that there is hardly any fish left in the Mahanadi’s basin at Pitaibandh due to the lack of water in the basin. This basin is located near Rajim-Nawapara in Chhattisgarh, the proposed site for the fourth anicut on the Mahanadi.
![Anicut on the Mahanadi basin at Rajim-Nawapara (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/41425163831_0d3d44336d_o.jpg?itok=6SrFogy4)
There’s no better gift, Daan Toilet!
Posted on 11 Apr, 2018 11:49 AMPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Swachh Bharat that envisages an open defecation-free India by the year 2019 has witnessed many local administrations take drastic measures to get people to b
![Baghmoria resident Bitul Gogoi poses in front of a newly constructed ‘Daan' toilet donated by Dr Richa Agarwala of Jorhat.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/baghmoria_resident_bitul_gogoi_poses_in_front_of_a_newly_constructed_daan_toilet_donated_by_dr._richa_agarwala_of_jorhat.jpeg?itok=TP_hcVw5)