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Toilets and Urinals
Safe sanitation for women
Posted on 05 Jul, 2016 10:08 PMAccording to the recent figures by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF [
![Women and toilets (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets_2.jpg?itok=VRubcEAR)
Understanding sanitation
Posted on 04 Jul, 2016 09:36 PMIt is a fact that constructing toilets alone cannot ensure total sanitation. The real challenge lies in getting people to use them. While treating fecal sludge and disposing it are largely urban concerns, modifying behaviour and motivating people to abandon open defecation are considered rural sanitation challenges.
![The overall strategy of behaviour change must be open to and address barriers influenced by caste, gender and other local variables. (Source: India WASH Forum)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bcc.png?itok=0uyhd8IX)
A long way to go before total sanitation
Posted on 01 Jul, 2016 04:09 PMOnly 16 out of India's 677 districts open defecation free
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Pipara women realise pipe dream
Posted on 01 Jul, 2016 12:03 PMThe cracks on the parched land of Bundelkhand are waiting for the monsoon to quench the thirst of its arid landscape. Despite the wide-spread drought here, Pipara, one of the villages in the region, stands apart as the only one that has not run completely dry.
![Women fill water from one of the taps at Pipara.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0063es.jpg?itok=E5g14DvX)
Swachh Bharat in reserve forests, tourist spots
Posted on 26 Jun, 2016 08:42 PMCleaning of 10 reserve forests and tourist spots to be taken up under Swachh Bharat Mission
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Transgenders face ridicule at public toilets: Survey
Posted on 19 Jun, 2016 08:00 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/trans-bathroom-law-south-dakota-2gblq5a.jpg?itok=Qp9ARLdW)
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 07:38 PMRamesh Mali, a farmer in his late thirties, looks at his farmland nervously. It has been 13 days since the Simhastha Maha Kumbh festival, 2016, concluded. The district administration had acquired his four bigha land (approximately 0.64 hectares) for the festival. The barricades and the concrete left on his land give us the idea that the land is not fit for farming this season.
![Kshipra at Mangalnath Ghat, Ujjain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0285es.jpg?itok=t5zxZWcE)
Upkeep of public toilets to be outsourced in North Delhi
Posted on 12 Jun, 2016 02:22 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/360589-toilets.jpg?itok=hjuwRm_t)
Mahila Milan's toilets stand out in Wadala
Posted on 07 Jun, 2016 09:27 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/Shanthi_toilets_2878979f.jpg?itok=tTpg8FG7)
Young professionals lead the way in water and sanitation
Posted on 31 May, 2016 12:22 PMHirehandigola village in Gadag district of North Karnataka is an unsurprising picture of rural India.
![Hirehandigola village, North Karnataka](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hirehandigola_village_image1.jpg?itok=KmSU2K6F)