Sanitation

This bi monthly e-Newsletter by the India WASH Forum provides excerpts of the JAGORI study from two slums of Delhi in 2010-11 that look at gender concerns in the context of slum sanitation in India and make some very useful recommendations.

Gulshan Thakur, 22, originally from district Palwal in Haryana, a graduate in Programming from Delhi University now lives and works in the country’s capital, Delhi. A little over two months back he joined Lalit Arts and Studios Pvt. Ltd , an event group based in Delhi with a dream of making it big in the line of event management business.

The Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD) and UNICEF India hosted this  National Conference on Women-led Water Management .

The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation provides a host of data related to the sanitation issues of different states in India.

Nearly 70% of India’s 1.2 billion people live in rural areas, many of which face unprecedented water shortages.

Launching the Toilets are Beautiful Campaign

 This document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation  spells out the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in providing water, sanitation and hygiene services during different phases of disasters.

Those readers who got the insider joke in the title need no introduction to the rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation evangelist that is zenrainman.

After 1,000 kms on the road crossing three states, organizers reveal exciting new formats for the last three stops of the Yatra

Sewagram, Maharashtra (Oct 3-5)

Boys sit here, girls sit there. A rule I grew up to as well, it seemed the easiest thing to do, back in school. Girls talk more and boys are irritating, who wants to sit with them anyway. We did talk to them. We had crushes on them and vice-versa.