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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)
India Sanitation Conclave and the ISC-FICCI sanitation awards, April 27-28, 2017, New Delhi
Posted on 16 Feb, 2017 12:36 PM

The India Sanitation Conclave will be a platform for deliberating on the various themes around corporate engagement in sanitation across India, from policy and regulatory enablers to best practices and business opportunity through the Build-Use-Maintain-Treat value chain.
Delhi's unauthorised colonies face sanitation crises
Posted on 13 Feb, 2017 10:59 AM

Open defecation and exposed drains compound sanitation crisis in Delhi's unauthorised colonies
Open defecation free tag for Mumbai unbelievable
Posted on 06 Feb, 2017 02:44 PM

Union government's open defecation free tag for Mumbai far from believable
PDS rations only for those with toilets in Sheopur
Posted on 31 Jan, 2017 10:19 AM

PDS rations only for BPL households with toilets in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh
Corporations lack clarity on Swachh Bharat cess fund usage
Posted on 23 Jan, 2017 04:48 PM

Most city corporations in the dark about the usage of funds under the Swachh Bharat cess
WB funds for Swachh Bharat yet to be released
Posted on 17 Jan, 2017 01:07 PM

Swachh Bharat funds promised by the World Bank yet to be released 
Cleanliness survey Swachh Survekshan 2017 underway
Posted on 09 Jan, 2017 11:00 AM

Sanitation, cleanliness indicators of 500 cities to be recorded and rated by Swachh Survekshan 2017
Now rate public toilets in Coimbatore with a smiley
Posted on 03 Jan, 2017 10:07 AM

Coimbatore corporation to set up 'smiley terminals' outside public toilets on a trial basis
Google launches public toilet finder app
Posted on 26 Dec, 2016 11:58 AM

Google launches toilet finder app in Delhi NCR and Madhya Pradesh
Zila Swachh Bharat Preraks to take Clean India Mission forward
Posted on 19 Dec, 2016 10:48 AM

Every district in India to have 600 Zila Swachh Bharat Preraks soon to rid the country of open defecation
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