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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)
An appeal to all ‘responsible’ fathers out there !
Posted on 03 Feb, 2015 10:02 AM

Author: Vijay Krishna
Generating demand for toilets: Experiences from Davangere, Karnataka
Posted on 31 Jan, 2015 12:22 PM

Author: Radhika Viswanathan
Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 30 Jan, 2015 05:52 PM

‘Sanitation is more important than independence’, Mahatma Gandhi famously pronounced. India’s battle with total sanitation is an ongoing saga with successive governments working to provide and safeguard this basic human right for a few decades now. 
Integrated and context-specific sanitation solutions needed as India gears up to build millions of toilets
Posted on 28 Jan, 2015 03:54 PM

Arghyam, a grant making foundation working in water and sanitation in India, hosted a workshop on 27th January 2015 at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore to understand the interface between groundwater and sanitation in India.
Wanted: Efficient workers and simple systems to make India open defecation free
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:37 AM

Author: Madhavi Purohit
Swachh Bharat Mission: 80% behind target
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:14 AM

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream
Ecosan toilet built in a village
Mission Sanitation - Lessons from Civil Society
Posted on 23 Jan, 2015 07:27 PM

Author: Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Swacch Bharat Mission: An opportunity to rethink public toilet governance
Althought the SBM rightly promises to secure the right to sanitation infrastructure and the right to a clean environment, it must take into consideration the sociopolitical realities of Indian cities.
Indivar Jonalagadda
Sandeep Tanniru
Posted on 21 Jan, 2015 06:15 PM

Evidence from India shows that open defecation continues to be common, and that a vast majority of the population from both urban and rural areas continue to have poor access to toilets.
Rural toilet (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
India Toilet Summit 2015 ‘Sanitation for All – Toilet First’, New Delhi, February 6, 2015
Posted on 14 Jan, 2015 01:16 PM
  • W​hat: IndiaCSR's first nation-wide Sanitation Summit
  • When: February 6, 2015
  • Where: Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi
CSR meets Sanitation
 
In a bid to take the lofty goals of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a step closer t
Water news: A recap of 2014
Water made big news in 2014 with the formation of the new Water Ministry, initiation of the Swachh Bharat Mission, disasters due to erratic weather, and several scientific achievements.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Jan, 2015 09:58 PM

New Water Ministry, Clean Ganga Portal, Ganga Manthan: Goverment makes efforts towards rejuvenating the Ganga
Sunset at Gadmukhteshwar
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