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Sanitation and Hygiene
5 days training programme on Sustainable Community Based Sanitation, CDD Society, Bangalore, October 2012
Posted on 07 Aug, 2012 10:07 AMOrganiser: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society
Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore
Minutes of the conference of state ministers and state secretaries in charge of rural drinking water and sanitation, 24th May – 25th May, 2012 Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi- A document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 05 Aug, 2012 08:51 AMThis document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, is on the minutes of the meeting of the conference of state ministers and state secretaries in charge of rural drinking water and sanitation.
What does it take to scale up rural sanitation ? - A working paper by Water and Sanitation Program
Posted on 04 Aug, 2012 10:22 AMThe deplorable condition of sanitation facilities in developing countries, has been gaining enormous attention in the recent times. It is no longer a “forgotten issue”.Though measure and several initiatives have been taken by national governments and international agencies to address this problem, yet a lot has to be done and learned about dealing with it.
Exploring the change in communication in sanitation: An Arghyam consultation held on 1 August 2012
Posted on 03 Aug, 2012 05:10 PMArghyam, which works in the areas of domestic water and sanitation, has decided to look more closely at the sanitation space to identify certain areas where it can work towards attaining total sanitation in rural areas of India.
Dug wells- A potentially safe source of drinking water for the arsenic and iron contaminated region of Bihar - A paper by Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA)
Posted on 03 Aug, 2012 01:00 PMThis paper published by Megh Pyne Abhiyan argues that dug wells slowly started losing their significance following the invention and large scale marketing of hand pumps,.
Guidelines Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (July 2012)- A document by Department of Drinking Water Supply
Posted on 02 Aug, 2012 08:17 PMThis document by Department of Drinking Water Supply is on the guidelines of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) (July 2012). The details of the guidelines are elaborated in 23 different sections, followed by an exhaustive list of annexure.
Water and a City: A film by Swati Dandekar that narrates the story of water in Bangalore
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 10:04 AMDirected and produced by Swati Dandekar, 'Water and a City' traces the journey of water through Bangalore using a succession of haunting im
Strengthen participatory urban governance to prevent pollution in Ganga at Kanpur and recognise the need to look for decentralized solutions
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 02:17 PMA one day Area Water Partnership Conference was held on 22nd July, 2012 by Shramik Bharti, Kanpur; Society for Action in Community Health (SACH) and Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), New Delhi at Jajmau, Kanpur, an industrial city on the banks of the Ganga which also happens to be a major centre for leather tanneries, which let out
Manual Scavenging Act and municipal wastewater workers in India, policy and practice - A dissertation
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 10:20 AMIndian municipal waste water disposal system generated a "neo scavengers" of municipal waste water workers/ sewer workers in organised occupations.
Solutions on the rehabilitation of manual scavengers were been enacted with the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 .
National seminar on decentralized governance in water and sanitation in rural India at LBSNAA, Mussoorie: Video recordings of selected presentations
Posted on 24 Jul, 2012 11:42 AMThe National Institute of Adminstrative Research (NIAR) organised a two-day conference on 'Decentralized governance in water and sanitation in rural India' at LBSNAA, Musoorie, in June 2012.