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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)
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)
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.
New law to save the Ganga
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PMO approves law to protect Ganga river
Sikkim achieves 100 sanitation under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Sikkim achieves 100% sanitation
The great Indian toilet tracker
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Women patiently wait for the sun to go down, to squat in open fields. Young children do so unabashedly on the roads under the open skies. Well into our 67th year of independence, the sanitation situation hasn't changed much in villages and towns across the nation.
If you dont clean our shit then who will
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

"Swaraj is a meaningless term, if we desire to keep a fifth of India under perpetual subjection, and deliberately deny to them the fruits of national culture". - Mahatma Gandhi
Sikkim is toilet state of India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Sikkim only state in the country with 100% sanitation
Contaminated water caused 13000 deaths in 4 years
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Contaminated water killed 13,000 in last four years
Water for Mumbai a cost to ecology
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Water for Mumbai a cost to ecology

All 12 dams planned to quench Mumbai's thirst fall in the ecologically sensitive region of Western Ghats. Will submerge more than 22,000 hectares.
New crop insurance scheme for Pudukottai TN
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Pudukottai gets crop insurance scheme to mitigate nature's fury
Red Hills reservoir leaks Chennais water supply
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Chennai's drinking water seeps down the drain
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