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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)
World Toilet Day: Beyond BCC
Though toilets are being constructed rapidly across India, questions remain about their acceptance and usage. Until that happens, complete 'swachhta' cannot be realised.
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 19 Nov, 2016 07:22 AM

The Swachh Bharat (Gramin) website reports an increase in the total percentage of household toilet constructed from 42.02 percent in 2014 to 56.85 percent as on November 15, 2016. The number of open defecation free villages have also increased from 50,168 in 2015-16 to 1,17,242 villages.
Children pose outside a toilet in Sanarpudur village, Namakkal.
New paradigms in WASH service delivery: Roundtable discussion, IIT Madras
This round table aims to discuss new paradigms in WASH service delivery among various stakeholders such as WASH experts, policy makers, private sector, funders and researchers
Posted on 16 Nov, 2016 10:06 AM

About: IIT Madras will be conducting a round table discussion titled 'Emerging Paradigms in Water,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) service delivery' on 23rd November, 2016
NGT raps Delhi government over air pollution
News this week
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 14 Nov, 2016 05:59 AM

Environment minister calls Delhi pollution 'emergency situation'
Delhi shrouded in smog. (Source: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy/Flickr)
Change in approach for better result
WASH policies need to consider nuanced needs of people across their lifespan for better results, finds out a study.
Akshaya Ayyangar
Posted on 11 Nov, 2016 11:11 PM

Providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene or WASH to everyone has been the focus of governments for many decades. The declaration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 set aside definite targets for water and sanitation that countries need to work towards.
There is a need for a nuanced approach in making water and sanitation available to public. (Source: India Water Portal)
WASH away Ujjain woes
The holy city of Ujjain is dealing with severe water and sanitation issues. A study reveals serious anomalies in the WASH situation in the city.
Rahul Banerjee
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 10:31 PM

Despite all the hype around Swachh Bharat Mission, the situation on the ground remains dismal. The city of Ujjain is located on the western part of Madhya Pradesh on the Malwa Plateau and is primarily a religious tourism centre due to the Mahakal temple.
Open well in Hira mill ki chaal slum situated next to an open drain resulting in its water getting polluted.
HP and Kerala declared open defecation free
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 07:40 AM

Himachal Pradesh becomes the second state in the country to be declared open defecation free
2nd Annual National Summit on Sustainable Water and Sanitation
The aim to summit is to expand access to safe water and quality sanitation to promote better hygiene.
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 07:20 PM

About: The 2nd Edition National Sustainable Water & Sanitation Summit 2016 scheduled on the 1st & 2nd December 2016 in New Delhi, India will bring the collective intelligence of stakeholders and also the acumen of visionary speakers in an effort to catalyze collaboration between the public & private water utilities, te
Bhopal to be declared ODF by year end
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:22 AM

Bhopal to be ODF ahead of schedule
40th WEDC International Conference, UK
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) calls for paper and other contributions for its 40th WEDC International Conference.
Posted on 28 Oct, 2016 04:01 PM

Title: Local Action with international cooperation to improve and sustain water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH) services

When: 24th – 28th July 2017

Where: Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Limited slum space reason behind less toilets
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 08:44 PM
Lack of space major reason behind low toilet penetration in Delhi slum clusters
With just 25 percent of slum clusters having access to individual toilets, the lack of space remains one of the major impediments in the increase in toilet numbers
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