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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)
Sanitation must go beyond shame and stigma
India needs to answer the important question of whether rural India can and will embrace toilet culture, and that must drive its colossal plan to rid the country of open defecation.
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 22 Apr, 2016 02:00 PM

India has come a long way since the days of its rigid top-down Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP), which had minimal community participation. First it was the Total Sanitation Campaign which then became the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, and most recently, the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Compact soak pit toilet
Positive correlation between higher levels of education for women and toilet use
A study found that toilet use was higher in households that had a high standard of living, higher educational levels among women and that were located in urban areas.
Anurag Banerjee
Nilanjan Banik
Ashvika Dalmia
Posted on 21 Apr, 2016 10:07 AM

India continues to have the highest number of people defecating out in the open according to recent figures by the World Health Organisation

Toilet use in India (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
School toilet construction slows down across the country compared to last year
Posted on 18 Apr, 2016 10:55 AM
8,240 school toilets and 1,337 Anganwadi toilets constructed in 2015-16: Swachhta Status Report 2016
The latest edition of the Swachhta Status Report brought out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has revealed that the
Low cost napkins: Are they a band aid in the absence of sanitation facilities?
Low-cost sanitary napkins can start a revolution, but only when factors like access to toilet, clean water, privacy for changing and sustainable disposal of used products is considered.
Nivedita Pathak
Jalandhar Pradhan
Posted on 15 Apr, 2016 05:24 PM

Menstrual hygiene management continues to be a challenge for rural women in India and many women are forced to resort to unhygienic ways of managing menstruation thus affecting their health and well-being. The paper titled 'Menstrual management and low cost sanitary napkins' published in the Economic and
Women, menstrual management and sanitation (Source: India Water Portal)
Exempt people living in slums from submitting registered sale deed copies for releasing sewerage connections: HMWSSB
Posted on 12 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM
HMWSSB wants people living in Hyderabad slums to be exempted from producing sale deed copies for releasing sewerage connections
Due to increased instances of open defecation in urban slums, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has urged the 
Deepor Beel now houses most of Guwahati's garbage
Posted on 04 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM
Most of Guwahati's garbage ends up at the city's permanent freshwater lake, the Deepor Beel
Toilet subsidy is not the answer to sanitation problems
Posted on 31 Mar, 2016 06:30 PM
In recent years, especially after the launch of major programmes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, sanitation has become a hotly debated topic in India. Crores of rupees have gone into building toilets but they remain unused, villages that were declared open defecation free (ODF) are unable to sustain that, and sewage treatment continues to be a big challenge.
Use of plastic in road constuction now made mandatory
Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 08:44 AM
MoEF's new waste management rules encourage the use of plastic refuse in road construction
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in its latest edition of the Plastic Waste Management Rules has made it mandatory for local bodies to
Urban India flushes toilet waste—directly or indirectly—into its water bodies
While the Swachh Bharat Mission focuses on eliminating open defecation in urban India by constructing toilets, it does not include the construction of additional sewage/ septage treatment facilities.
Geetika Anand
Vishnu MJ
Posted on 28 Mar, 2016 05:29 PM

Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), one of the flagship programmes of the current NDA government, focuses on eliminating open defecation in urban India by constructing individual household, community and public toilets.
Mumbai's Oshiwara river severely polluted with waste (Source: Wikipedia)
Chennaites to learn more about solid waste segregation in the coming months
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 10:15 AM
Greater Chennai Corporation to conduct trials and create awareness about waste segregation among residents
Acknowledging that a massive behaviour change is needed to transform the city’s solid waste management scene, the Greater Chennai Corporation has embarked on a mission to
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