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Toilets and Urinals
Think, before you have your cup of tea!
Posted on 19 Aug, 2020 06:58 PMIndia is the second largest tea producer in the world, with production at 1.2 million metric tons
![Women workers at a tea plantation in Assam (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tea_garden_0.jpg?itok=gFVVd7Zj)
Locals struggle with WASH issues post-Amphan
Posted on 17 Aug, 2020 12:17 PMUN’s recognition of safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right recently hit a decade and this makes us ponder even more about the situation in the Sundarbans after the Amphan cyclone. The destruction caused by Amphan in the Sundarbans poses a massive threat to the very right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation of the people living there.
![Having no source of water is proving to be extremely difficult for the people living in the Sundarbans. (Image: WaterAid, Subhrajit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/w5.jpg?itok=J4P7V49H)
Building awareness to changing behaviour: A paradigm shift with digital technology
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 03:12 PMUrban India, in the grip of the pandemic
![Rural training at the doorstep (Image Source: UNICEF)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/training2.jpg?itok=Gvy4v5yY)
Northeast fights Covid-19
Posted on 09 Jun, 2020 11:34 PMWhile Covid-19 has left many countries including India in the line of fire, the situation in India is now getting particularly alarming with the number of people infected by Covid-19 rising at a rapid pace.
![Ration distribution to the migrants (Image Source: Sunbird Trust)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ne_covid.jpg?itok=5K3Rf9fP)
Mumbai slums fight Covid-19
Posted on 26 May, 2020 06:43 AMAnand Jagtap, ex Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the winner of the Lingaraja Memorial Award and a PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai has been associated with the Slum Sanitation Programme (SSP) undertaken by MCGM with support from the World Bank since 1997 to 2005.
![Flushing the virus, in times of Covid-19 (Image Source: Anand Jagtap)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jagtap1.jpg?itok=Eh_sT4oY)
Menstrual hygiene needs, in times of Covid-19
Posted on 25 May, 2020 11:06 AMDeane De Menezes is the founder of Red is the New Green (RING) – an award winning social enterprise working towards reducing the social stigma attached to menstruation.
![Managing menstrual hygiene, in times of Covid-19 (Image Source: RISE Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/deane1.jpg?itok=mn1VBVPw)
Flushing away Covid-19, the Mumbai way!
Posted on 23 May, 2020 11:55 AMSlums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots!
![Training safai and cremation workers on safe practices during the corona pandemic (Image Source: Triratna Prerna Mandal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/maharashtra_covid.jpg?itok=xXcJQ3K8)
WASH warriors, in the making!
Posted on 15 May, 2020 03:17 PMCitizens Association for Child Rights (CACR) works with municipal schools in Mumbai with a focus on WASH and menstrual hygiene management and even a digital literacy programme.
![WASH warriors, in the making! (Image Source: CACR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cacr.png?itok=jDJBwsuI)
FAQs: Faecal sludge and septage management
Posted on 26 Apr, 2020 03:53 PMThis primer provides the basics related to most aspects of faecal sludge and septage management. Please click on a topic to view more detailed information.
![Empty faecal sludge drying bed (Image: Lars Schoebitz)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/fssm1_0.jpg?itok=TDtRhEXN)
Covid-19 leaves women in the line of fire
Posted on 19 Apr, 2020 06:30 AMThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide and India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India also is experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a large number of workers from the informal sector.
![Covid treats women differently (Image Source: Simon Williams/ Ekta Parishad via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_1.jpg?itok=ohmG14Td)