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Sanitation and Hygiene
Advisory on how to prevent Covid-19
Posted on 02 Apr, 2020 06:50 PMCOVID-19 (novel coronavirus disease), an acute respiratory disease emerged in late 2019 and has been spreading rapidly across the globe. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It is marked by respiratory problems that are usually mild (coughing, fever) but can be severe (pneumonia, trouble breathing).
![The fear is that Covid-19 would almost certainly spread within communities in India, just as it had started to do in Italy, South Korea, and Iran. (Image: Trinity Care Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/covid-faq1.jpg?itok=41VB9Eag)
Joining the battle against Covid-19
Posted on 02 Apr, 2020 10:48 AMThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared coronavirus disease a pandemic. Originating from Wuhan in China, it has traversed almost the entire globe, and claimed more than 41,000 lives, while over 8 lakh people are infected already. That’s largely the urban population.
![Keeping the communities abreast of best practices for a safe and healthy living (Image: PRADAN)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pradan1.jpg?itok=yX74kSLg)
Vulnerability in the times of Corona
Posted on 25 Mar, 2020 10:54 AMDisasters have the ability to disrupt everyday life. However, it is not often that we probe about what constitutes a disaster? How do we define it? Well, a disaster varies in definition for different agencies.
![Image: Muffinn, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/covid-radio.jpg?itok=tEP1gV9X)
Water, the first line of defence against climate change
Posted on 22 Mar, 2020 09:50 AMWater insufficiency is a challenging problem globally with 1 in 10 people lacking a basic water pump or covered well close to home.
![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, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid_anindito_mukherjee_600_px.jpg?itok=mpEmficC)
Clean water, a crucial weapon to combat COVID -19
Posted on 21 Mar, 2020 04:32 PMThis month has been seeing a different kind of a scare world over, that of the deadly corona virus pandemic that has been spreading rapidly, infecting people and leading to a rising number of deaths in numerous countries.
![Is our tap water really safe? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cmi_0.jpg?itok=1JwzzJ8n)
Women lead the way in water quality surveillance
Posted on 06 Mar, 2020 01:45 PMHistorically, water is a gendered burden, with women being the primary caregivers responsible for cooking, washing and cleaning chores in the house and in modern times in institutions (teachers, anganwadi and healthcare workers). Women have traditionally been associated with various water related tasks - be it collecting, fetching, or purifying water.
![Organised under WaterAid India’s partnership with GAP, water testing workshop (2019) held in Indore district aimed at training women and youth to lead the entire process of community water management – from planning to supply, operations and maintenance and to educate communities on water-quality issues. (Image: WaterAid India/Ashima Narain)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wai1.jpg?itok=FVFEjRSY)
The miserable plight of sanitation workers
Posted on 29 Feb, 2020 06:01 PMMany of the challenges sanitation workers face, stem from their lack of visibility in society, says a report ‘Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers’ produced jointly by The World Bank,
![A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India (Image: WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wateraid-cs_sharada_prasad.jpg?itok=us6DmgNs)
Suffering in silence: Migrant cane cutters of Maharashtra
Posted on 27 Feb, 2020 10:04 PMMaharashtra is the second largest sugar producing state in India, after Uttar Pradesh where as high as 1.6 million farmers cultivate sugarcane on 0.7 million hectares of land. The sugarcane industry provides direct employment to about 0.16 million workers while 1.5 million workers engage in sugarcane harvesting and transport operations every year.
![Women workers suffer the most (Image Source: Azhar Feder, Wikimedia Commons-CC-BY-SA-3.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/budget1_1.jpg?itok=nFOOYSao)
Sixty river stretches found polluted in the northeast: CPCB
Posted on 22 Feb, 2020 09:53 PMNortheast has 60 polluted river stretches: CPCB
![A river in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3204968388_46ba61faf2_c.jpg?itok=1i_F20GH)