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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)
Mumbaikars can now rate cleanliness of public toilets
Posted on 11 Dec, 2016 09:21 PM

Rating machines to help users rate cleanliness and hygiene levels of public toilets in Mumbai
Voice systems to instruct passengers on bio-toilet use
Posted on 28 Nov, 2016 11:42 AM

Southern Railway introduces voice system to instruct passengers on how to use bio-toilets
Community toilets in forest lands get approval
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 09:58 AM

Community toilets can come up in forest lands under SBM
1.14 lakh Indian villages declared open defecation free
Posted on 14 Nov, 2016 10:27 AM

1.14 lakh villages have been declared open defecation free so far across the country
HP and Kerala declared open defecation free
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 07:40 AM

Himachal Pradesh becomes the second state in the country to be declared open defecation free
Bhopal to be declared ODF by year end
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:22 AM

Bhopal to be ODF ahead of schedule
Namma toilets flounder in Delhi
Posted on 24 Oct, 2016 08:39 PM

Marginally functional 'namma toilets' fail in New Delhi
A waste of energy
Posted on 19 Oct, 2016 11:00 PM

Cattle dung is not waste but an asset in rural India. With its use in food production diminishing, biogas is the next best way to utilise it.
Limited slum space reason behind less toilets
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 08:44 PM
Lack of space major reason behind low toilet penetration in Delhi slum clusters
With just 25 percent of slum clusters having access to individual toilets, the lack of space remains one of the major impediments in the increase in toilet numbers
Two Mumbai slums get bio-digester public toilets
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 09:57 AM
Bio-digester toilet complexes come up in Dharavi and Mahim in Mumbai
The municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai inaugurated two bio-digester toilet complexes with 30 seats each in the localities of Dharavi and Mahim in Mumbai.
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