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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)
Generating demand for toilets: Experiences from Davangere, Karnataka
Posted on 31 Jan, 2015 12:22 PM

Author: Radhika Viswanathan
Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 30 Jan, 2015 05:52 PM

‘Sanitation is more important than independence’, Mahatma Gandhi famously pronounced. India’s battle with total sanitation is an ongoing saga with successive governments working to provide and safeguard this basic human right for a few decades now. 
Integrated and context-specific sanitation solutions needed as India gears up to build millions of toilets
Posted on 28 Jan, 2015 03:54 PM

Arghyam, a grant making foundation working in water and sanitation in India, hosted a workshop on 27th January 2015 at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore to understand the interface between groundwater and sanitation in India.
Wanted: Efficient workers and simple systems to make India open defecation free
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:37 AM

Author: Madhavi Purohit
Swachh Bharat Mission: 80% behind target
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:14 AM

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream
Ecosan toilet built in a village
How do income levels affect water-borne diseases?
There is lack of crucial information on how urban water infrastructure influences and transforms the flow of water leading to the emergence of diseases in the process.
Saravanan V Subramanian
Mavalankar D
Kulkarni S
Nussbaum S
Weigelt M
Posted on 25 Jan, 2015 05:18 PM

Urban water infrastructure has an important role to play in public health, and includes built networks that facilitate the flow and exchange of water over space.
An illegal settlement (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Mission Sanitation - Lessons from Civil Society
Posted on 23 Jan, 2015 07:27 PM

Author: Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Swacch Bharat Mission: An opportunity to rethink public toilet governance
Althought the SBM rightly promises to secure the right to sanitation infrastructure and the right to a clean environment, it must take into consideration the sociopolitical realities of Indian cities.
Indivar Jonalagadda
Sandeep Tanniru
Posted on 21 Jan, 2015 06:15 PM

Evidence from India shows that open defecation continues to be common, and that a vast majority of the population from both urban and rural areas continue to have poor access to toilets.
Rural toilet (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
India Toilet Summit 2015 ‘Sanitation for All – Toilet First’, New Delhi, February 6, 2015
Posted on 14 Jan, 2015 01:16 PM
  • W​hat: IndiaCSR's first nation-wide Sanitation Summit
  • When: February 6, 2015
  • Where: Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi
CSR meets Sanitation
 
In a bid to take the lofty goals of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a step closer t
Invitation to the training programme on 'Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)', TARA Livelihood Academy, New Delhi
The training is designed to enrich the participant's knowledge on key elements for success of WASH interventions in India and best practices in WASH.
Posted on 09 Jan, 2015 12:48 PM

Course contents

  • Challenges to access WASH in India: Areas for intervention
  • Innovative approaches for WASH service delivery
  • WASH: Indian Perspective & Policy
  • CSR Projects & Programs in WASH: Systems for scale
  • Collaboration opportunities in WASH

Who should attend?
Training programme on 'Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
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