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June 15, 2024
WASH facilities evade tribals 
What is the state of tribal populations in the context of WASH indicators and access to WASH facilities? A study explores.
A rural toilet (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
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)
September 15, 2023
वायु प्रदूषण घटा रहा है उम्र
शिकागो यूनिवर्सिटी की रिपोर्ट एयर क्वालिटी लाइफ इंडेक्स-2023 भयावह तस्वीर प्रस्तुत करती है। रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक भारत दुनिया का दूसरा सर्वाधिक प्रदूषित देश और दिल्ली सर्वाधिक प्रदूषित शहर है। रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक पूरे भारत में एक भी जगह ऐसी नहीं है जो विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन के स्वच्छ हवा के मानकों पर खरी उतरती हो ।
वायु प्रदूषण घटा रहा है उम्र
July 12, 2023
Saamuhika Shakti: Empowering Bangalore waste pickers to live dignified lives
A collective impact effort, the first of its type in India that provides informal waste pickers a chance to live safe and dignified lives, with particular emphasis on gender and equity.
Waste pickers and sorters working hard to extract recyclable value from the waste we throw out (Image: Vinod Sebastian/ Saamuhika Shakti)
June 2, 2023
Lived experiences of sanitation and hygiene access
Immersive research for safer sanitation in Bihar and Maharashtra
Children pose outside a toilet (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
December 13, 2022
Mobilising communities for WASH
WaterAid India’s partnership with USAID and Gap Inc. benefits 2400 villages across 7 districts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra
WaterAid has focused on establishing community-led water quality monitoring & surveillance (Image: Anil Gulati/India Water Portal Flickr)
If you don't clean our shit, then who will?
Manual scavenging continues to exist in India even 67 years after Independence. Is it due to the lack of laws, lack of alternatives or lack of will?
Prarthana Vishal
Posted on 16 Feb, 2014 10:53 PM

"Swaraj is a meaningless term, if we desire to keep a fifth of India under perpetual subjection, and deliberately deny to them the fruits of national culture". - Mahatma Gandhi
A manual scavenger at work (Source:Flickr Commons)
Applications invited for 'Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development (Round IV)', USAID, Government of Norway, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada and DFID'
The challenge seeks to identify and develop approaches that integrate new technologies in water and sanitation, better service delivery models and improved innovations that empower pregnant women.
Posted on 13 Feb, 2014 01:48 PM

Know more about 'Saving Lives at Birth'

Register for the challenge

Download the RFA for challenge from below.
Series of Open Conference Calls on, 'A Market Led, Evidence Based, Approach to Rural Sanitation', Monitor Inclusive Markets
Monitor Inclusive Markets will be holding a series of open conference calls to discuss the key findings of their white paper titled 'A Market Led, Evidence Based, Approach to Rural Sanitation'.
Posted on 13 Feb, 2014 07:49 AM

The conference calls will be held on March 13, 2014

Please RSVP to inmim@deloitte.com with the call you intend to join in order to receive dial-in information and materials.

Get more information on the conference.
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Invite to the 'WASH Conference and Training Program', International WaterCentre, Brisbane, Australia
The conference invites practitioners from civil society, government and industry, donors and academics to share learnings, build on existing WASH dialogues and establish global networks.
Posted on 12 Feb, 2014 05:38 PM

Program Overview:
International Water Centre
Invitation to the 'International Conference on Water Sanitation & Recycling', Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture, Mumbai
The objective of the conference is to map the scope, issues, challenges, importance and benefits of New-Water cooperation amongst the stake holders.
Posted on 12 Feb, 2014 05:03 PM

Overview:

Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture (MACCIA) invites participation from all over National & International Level for the Conference. The Conference shall witness participation from:
New crop insurance scheme for Pudukottai, TN
Policy matters this week: Crop scheme for Pudukottai gets govt. approval; Delhi govt. plans to revive defunct RWH system in schools; NGT orders vigil against illegal coastal sand mining.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 10 Feb, 2014 07:06 PM

Pudukottai gets crop insurance scheme to mitigate nature's fury
Villagers planting paddy crops (Source: Wikipedia)
Red Hills reservoir leaks Chennai's water supply!
News this week: Chennai's Red Hills reservoir is leaking water; quantum of uranium in 'Thummalapalle' groundwater poses no threat to people; Kerala has the cleanest Anganwadi toilets.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 10 Feb, 2014 04:49 PM

Chennai's drinking water seeps down the drain
A reservoir in Tamil Nadu (Source: Wikipedia)
Invitation to 'the World Walks for Water and Sanitation', Bangalore Volunteer.org, Bangalore
The aim of this walk is to bring about a water usage & sanitation awareness (especially the Public Toilet Culture) among the residents of Bangalore.
Posted on 05 Feb, 2014 08:35 PM

Objective:
Walk for Water and Sanitation
Engineers’ Training on 'Simplified Sewer System', Center for Advanced Sanitation Solutions, Bangalore
The training programme aims to introduce and impart engineering skills to participants for design and implementation of simplified sewer system.
Posted on 05 Feb, 2014 07:27 PM

Training on Simplified Sewer System
Land of water, no more
Tripura has 35,000 litres of water annually per capita. That is double that of the national average. So why are its people still facing water shortage?
Biswendu Bhattacharjee
Posted on 02 Feb, 2014 10:11 PM

The name Tripura originated from 'Twi' meaning water and 'Para' meaning land. The indigenous population, which is about 32%, refer to Tripura as Twipra, meaning land of water. However, the state no longer seems to be living up to its name.
Soil erosion raises river beds in Tripura
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