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August 16, 2024
Open drains drain health
A recent study finds that majority of the poor in India are likely to have open drains or no drainage systems to convey and treat their waste flows, threatening their health.
Open drains, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)
July 28, 2024
Tap into the numbers: Budget insights on WASH
The budget allocation for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation reflects a steady upward trajectory, underscoring the importance of scaling financial commitments to meet the growing demands of the WASH sector.
Child drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)
November 17, 2023
Unmasking gender disparities in Indian sanitation
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
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)
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)
February 7, 2023
Budget 2023-24: Drinking water supply and sanitation continues to get priority
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)
Karnataka urban drinking water and sanitation policy 2002
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Increasing urbanization has resulted in greater pressure on the existing urban water supply and sanitation systems leading to increasing demand on the one hand to augment the source and improve distribution and on the other to increase the coverage of underground drainage (UGD).

IELRC site provides information on selected Indian supreme court and high court waterrelated cases World Bank and Asian Develeopment Bank funded water projects alongwith national and state legislation related to water and sanitation
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This section on the IELRC site contains selected Indian Supreme Court and High Court cases related to water. The decisions related to water and sanitation taken by the Supreme Court since the early years after independence also includes a few cases dating back to colonial times. Notable cases include - 
Water security for residents of apartments gated communities in Bangalore An article by SS Ranganathan
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Mr. S.S. Ranganathan, author of this guest post, is a retired senior executive of Ion Exchange and currently a consultant based in Bangalore.

He can be reached at: ss.ranganathan@gmail.com , +91-9343734229

WATER SECURITY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF APARTMENTS & GATED COMMUNITIES -  S.S.Ranganathan
Learning from experience water and environmental sanitation in India UNICEF report
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

UNICEFThis report by the

Human Development Report 2006 United Nations Development Programme
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The human development report for the year 2006 published by the United Nations Development Programme focuses on water and sanitation and is divided into the following chapters:
Drinking water and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra A review of policy initiatives Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

These papers published by FORWARD provides a background on the water crisis in India and describes the water and sanitation situation in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The Asian Water Development Outlook A document by the Asian Development Bank
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This book was commissioned by the Asian Development Bank as part of its support to the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF), an independent, non-partisan, non-political network of institution
Understanding the urban poors vulnerabilities in sanitation and water supply by Barbara Evans Centre for Sustainable Urban Development 2009
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This paper by Barbara Evans was presented at the Rockerfeller Foundation Urban Summit (1-6 J
Asia water watch 2015 progress made by asian nations in meeting target 10 of the millennium development goals
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This report by the Asia Development Bank aims at assessing the progress made by asian nations, in meeting target 10 of the millennium development goals, which is "to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people with
Disease burden due to inadequate water and sanitation facilities in India Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This report presents the findings of a study conducted by the

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