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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)
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)
September 27, 2022
Dirty drains drain health
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)
Fact Checker's random school survey casts serious doubts about the government's 100% toilet coverage claim
Posted on 14 Sep, 2015 10:06 AM
Fact Checker's random school survey casts serious doubts about the government's 100% toilet coverage claim
 
A random check carried out by Fact Checker has revealed that many schools in some of India’s backward districts still remain without toilets
My friend 'non-toxic' Ganesha
Posted on 11 Sep, 2015 10:01 AM
Ganesh Chathurthi, a much-awaited event in the Hindu calendar, is celebrated with great pomp especially in Western India. The reason could be that freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak used this festival in the 1890s to arouse the nationalistic sentiments of locals and bring all factions together against the reigning British.
Direct discharge of human waste from railway coaches onto the tracks makes the National Green Tribunal very unhappy
Posted on 07 Sep, 2015 10:16 AM
National Green Tribunal unhappy with Railways’ practice of discharging waste directly onto the tracks
 
गाँवों में जगाई एकता और स्वच्छता की अलख
Posted on 06 Sep, 2015 01:16 PM

कल्पतरु समाचार सेवा फिरोजाबाद। नेहरु युवा केन्द्र न
वाट्स एप पर मुहिम, खुले में शौच से मुक्त हुई पंचायत
Posted on 04 Sep, 2015 03:47 PM

रामेश्वर बेड़ा, जोधपुर

 
नाला सफाई में गड़बड़ी उजागर
Posted on 04 Sep, 2015 12:09 PM

एब्सल्यूट संवाददाता

अधूरे शौचालय निर्माण को पूरा करने की ग्रामीणों की माँग
Posted on 31 Aug, 2015 03:10 PM

अनिल कुमार गुप्ता

 
To pee or not to pee: A question women may not need to ask any more
Posted on 31 Aug, 2015 01:12 PM
Women may finally have the freedom to pee anywhere, without having to analyse the extent of a public toilet's hygiene. Read, all ye women, before your next pee break!
 
Author: Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Lead image courtesy: Priya Desai
 
Scenario 1: You go to a cinema and it's cold.
नगर निगम के सामने बन रहा स्मार्ट आधुनिक शौचालय
Posted on 30 Aug, 2015 11:27 AM

डेली न्यूज नेटवर्क लखनऊ। शहर वासि
स्कूलों में स्वच्छता एवं सेनिटेशन चेतना सन्देश
Posted on 28 Aug, 2015 10:18 AM

कृष्ण गोपाल 'व्यास'

 
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