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Sanitation and Hygiene
Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon, under JJM
Posted on 04 May, 2020 03:13 PMUnder JJM, Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon
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Covid-19: Oxfam India responding with relief in 14 states
Posted on 27 Apr, 2020 12:58 AMIn the last one week of starting its humanitarian relief response to fight coronavirus, Oxfam India along with its partners have provided dry ration to around 40,000 poor people, cooked meals served to nearly 40,000 migrant labourers, distributed 2660 safety kits to frontline workers and reached 4.5 million people through awareness initiatives in India.
![Oxfam India is concerned about the impact Covid-19 could have on the most vulnerable communities (Image: Oxfam India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oxfam-lead.jpg?itok=Qcb1O7Wb)
FAQs: Faecal sludge and septage management
Posted on 26 Apr, 2020 03:53 PMThis primer provides the basics related to most aspects of faecal sludge and septage management. Please click on a topic to view more detailed information.
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Covid-19 and water security in India: Magnifying inequities in an unequal world
Posted on 25 Apr, 2020 01:44 PM
![In the absence of piped water access, poor households will find it exceedingly difficult to practice regular handwashing (Image: UNICEF, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwash-1.jpg?itok=Vl-ldrAZ)
Covid-19: Survey on hand washing
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 02:30 PMA hand washing survey is being conducted by SIGMA Foundation, a not for profit society, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to know about handwashing practices being followed across different sections of the society in India.
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Covid-19 leaves women in the line of fire
Posted on 19 Apr, 2020 06:30 AMThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide and India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India also is experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a large number of workers from the informal sector.
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WASH in the times of COVID-19
Posted on 17 Apr, 2020 10:08 PMMaharashtra has the highest COVID-19 cases in the country and the government is taking a slew of measures to flatten the curve. We speak to Mr.
![Students handwashing with soap (Image: World Bank, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing-soap.jpg?itok=EGI_3QFB)
Combating Covid-19 collectively: DHAN’s way
Posted on 10 Apr, 2020 12:21 PMAs the Covid-19 pandemic reaches new corners of the country, the NGO community in India has been preparing itself to respond to the unexpected needs that the crisis is producing. DHAN Foundation, a professional development organisation working in several states of India with the communities has begun to develop a strategy.
![Creating awareness about the pandemic as well as about the measures essential to be safe (Image: DHAN Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/corona1.jpg?itok=CrCV9eE2)
Guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste are out
Posted on 08 Apr, 2020 01:10 PMCPCB releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste
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COVID-19 lockdown: Health of Ganga and Yamuna rivers improves
Posted on 08 Apr, 2020 01:05 PMLockdown impact: Health of water bodies improves
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