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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)
A survey on public toilets in urban India by WASH For India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This 15 minute question-answer survey by WASH For India, a nonprofit working on water & sanitation in India, will help understand the repercussions of poor sanitation.
PM: Teesta pact with Bdesh difficult
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PM terms Teesta pact with B'desh 'difficult'
Toilets for all: Jharkhand's Sanitation Policy
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The document titled ‘Sanitation Policy of Jharkhand’, by the Government of Jharkhand, serves as a guidance manual to follow the directives of the Nirmal Bahrat Abhiyan (NBA), a government programme to tackle open defecation in rural India.
Narmada Kshipra interlinked
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

India's first river interlinking project inuagurated
Railway stations serve contaminated water
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Drinking water at railway stations highly contaminated: Report
Drinking water costs Rs 400 per month in Manipur
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Manipur villagers spend Rs 400 per month on drinking water
Siang Basin dams study inadequate: NGO
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Siang Basin dams' study inadequate: NGO
Want to build a toilet?
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The Government of Jharkhand has published a technical document in order to encourage the construction and usage of toilets in the state of Jharkhand. The manual begins with an introduction to Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), a government programme to tackle open defecation in rural India.
Indias embankments flood Nepal
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Uninformed construction on the Indian side floods Nepal

Construction of embankments and dykes along Kaliganga river in Uttarakhand results in floods in Nepal's Dharchula district downstream.
New law to save the Ganga
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PMO approves law to protect Ganga river
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