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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)
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)
December 2, 2021
The loo loop
Public toilets and choice of work for women
Separation between women and men’s toilets (Image: Rajesh Pamnani; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
July 6, 2021
Billions lack access to WASH services
If trends persist, billions will be left without critical, life-saving WASH services, says a SDG monitoring report
Between 2016 and 2020, the global population with safely managed drinking water at home increased from 70% to 74% (Image: Pxhere)
May 11, 2021
Bathing spaces for women - crucial for WASH!
Bathing spaces and not toilets alone, aid women in maintaining health and hygiene. It is time the Swachh Bharat Mission pays attention to bathing spaces as well!
A temperory bathing space with no water and privacy in a fishing village in Tamil Nadu (Image Source: India Water Portal)
December 20, 2020
Putting faecal sludge management on track
The cost and revenue projections for both on-demand and scheduled desludging scenarios were elaborated upon in the faecal sludge management plan for Dhen­kanal Municipality.
Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant at Dhenkanal, Odisha
Ramanathapuram's tryst with total sanitation
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 12:07 PM
2002 marked the beginning of a journey that managed to inspire several panchayat leaders and workers in Ramanathapuram. The Total Sanitation Campaign was launched in June that year and within a year's time, over 15,000 individual toilets were up and functional.
Nightsoil to biogas: Mapuskar's Malaprabha
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 11:46 AM
When Dr. Mapuskar landed in Dehu village to practice medicine, there were no toilets. With no other option at hand, Mapuskar joined the hundreds of others in the village and went out in the open.
Nirmal Gram Puraskar - Changing landscapes and mindsets
Posted on 30 Nov, 2014 11:57 AM

With over 638 million people defecating in the open, India’s obsession with constructing toilets is not surprising. In a bid to arrest the number of people going out to answer nature’s call, successive governments have been pushing their total sanitation drive under different names.
No toilet, no job
Panchayat presidents of Namakkal district get people to build toilets at home by banning them from work until they do so.
Divya N
Posted on 28 Nov, 2014 03:04 PM

Thipramahadevi Pudhur is a village in Erumapatti Block, Namakkal District with 115 households. In July this year, this village was declared as ‘open-defecation free’ (ODF), something that was aided by Leaf Society, an organization based in Namakkal and their effective strategy of awareness generation, and leveraging of government loans to communities via convergence. 
Billboard declaring Thipramahadevi Pudhur ODF
Water Aid launches tool to track Swachh Bharat Mission
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 25 Nov, 2014 11:15 AM

An interactive tool to monitor progress of toilet construction launched
Toilet under construction in Karnataka
Toilets and social networks: Is there a connection?
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM
Of late, there have been plenty of discussions around the topic of sanitation, which have focussed on building toilets on a massive scale.
It's not just about rape
It is time we realise that sanitation is not just a development target that can be achieved by increasing the number of toilets. It is a reflection of how we view ourselves, both men and women, as equal members of society.
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Nandatai and her 16 year old daughter Phula creep out of their houses quietly in the wee hours of the morning into the dark fields to relieve themselves before everyone wakes up. It is an everyday story as this is the only time in the day that they have privacy. “It is so shameful to go out in the fields during the day”, says Nandatai. “We have to hold our urine till it gets dark.
Sanitation access among women is a fundamental human right (Image Source: surrealpenguin via Wikimedia Commons)
Factors affecting toilet adoption in rural India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Since the rebranding of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to the Swach Bharat Mission, newspapers have been flooded with articles and discussions on the need to improve the sanitation scenario in India.
Furious Jhelum claims 160 lives
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

J&K reels under the worst flood in 60 years
Increased subsidy for toilet construction
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Higher monetary incentives for toilet construction and delinking sanitation mission from MGNREGS
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