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November 17, 2023 Women's struggle for sanitation equity in rural areas and urban slums India
A training exercise on water and sanitation, as part of an EU-funded project on integrated water resource management in Rajasthan. (Image: UN Women Asia and Pacific; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
October 20, 2023 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)
July 12, 2023 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)
February 7, 2023 Budgetary allocations for urban sanitation get an impetus, but Swachh Bharat Mission – Rural (SBM-R) records no change in its budgetary allocation
An amount of Rs 1840 crore has been approved to effecvely implement Water Security Plans through convergence of ongoing/new schemes (Image: Pavitra K B Rao, Wikimedia Commons)
December 13, 2022 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)
September 27, 2022 This study found that the sanitary quality of neighbourhood drains, in addition to toilets, affected sanitation and hygiene and incidences of ill-health in rural households.
Dirty drainages, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)
Exempt people living in slums from submitting registered sale deed copies for releasing sewerage connections: HMWSSB
Posted on 12 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM
HMWSSB wants people living in Hyderabad slums to be exempted from producing sale deed copies for releasing sewerage connections
Due to increased instances of open defecation in urban slums, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has urged the 
Deepor Beel now houses most of Guwahati's garbage
Posted on 04 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM
Most of Guwahati's garbage ends up at the city's permanent freshwater lake, the Deepor Beel
Toilet subsidy is not the answer to sanitation problems
Posted on 31 Mar, 2016 06:30 PM
In recent years, especially after the launch of major programmes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, sanitation has become a hotly debated topic in India. Crores of rupees have gone into building toilets but they remain unused, villages that were declared open defecation free (ODF) are unable to sustain that, and sewage treatment continues to be a big challenge.
Use of plastic in road constuction now made mandatory
Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 08:44 AM
MoEF's new waste management rules encourage the use of plastic refuse in road construction
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in its latest edition of the Plastic Waste Management Rules has made it mandatory for local bodies to
Chennaites to learn more about solid waste segregation in the coming months
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 10:15 AM
Greater Chennai Corporation to conduct trials and create awareness about waste segregation among residents
Acknowledging that a massive behaviour change is needed to transform the city’s solid waste management scene, the Greater Chennai Corporation has embarked on a mission to
Thousands of fish die in Bengaluru's sewage-choked Ulsoor lake
Posted on 13 Mar, 2016 01:19 PM
Thousands of dead fish found floating in Bengaluru's Ulsoor lake: Lack of dissolved oxygen due to sewage contamination blamed
Residents were in for a huge shock last week when they witnessed thousands of fish turning up dead in Bengaluru’s Ulsoor Lake.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan receives an allocation of Rs 9,000 crore in the 2016-17 Budget
Posted on 06 Mar, 2016 11:38 PM
Centre allocates Rs 9,000 crore for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in the 2016-17 Budget
The Union government has allocated Rs 9,000 crore for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to improve sanitation and cleanliness across the country.The campaign, one of P
Mysuru is India's cleanest city, again
Posted on 22 Feb, 2016 09:32 AM
Swachh Sarvekshan results revealed: Mysuru is India's cleanest city, again
The Swachh Survekshan that set out to assess the cleanliness and hygiene levels in cities across India has declared
Landfills galore, our cities choke on their own garbage
Posted on 16 Feb, 2016 08:28 AM
December floods expose Chennai's poorly designed waste management processes
The floods of December 2015 exposed flaws in Chennai's overall town planning and civic infrastructure management, bringing the city's archaic waste management system again to the forefront.
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