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November 17, 2023 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 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 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 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 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 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
Hackers stay up day and night at the Pune Sanitation Hackathon in December 2012 to develop innovative software solutions that address challenges facing the sanitation sector in India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

 

The  Sanitation Hacakathon challenged programmers to develop innovative software solutions that address real-world problems in sanitation. Technologists teamed up with sanitation subject experts in an intensive marathon to find innovative solutions to challenges facing the sanitation sector.

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Behaviour change towards sanitation and education through art and drama
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

With the main objective of creating awareness among the community about the importance of education, open defecation and clean water, HEEALS, a non-profit organization, has collaborated with students from the Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD), University Of London, to use Applied Theatre as an unconventional and proactive tool to increase awareness among school children in villages and

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra : The Yatra my launch pad
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Gulshan Thakur, 22, originally from district Palwal in Haryana, a graduate in Programming from Delhi University now lives and works in the country’s capital, Delhi. A little over two months back he joined Lalit Arts and Studios Pvt. Ltd , an event group based in Delhi with a dream of making it big in the line of event management business.

National conference by IRRAD and UNICEF on women led water management Strategies towards water sustainability in rural India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD) and UNICEF India hosted this  National Conference on Women-led Water Management .

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Goodwill on Wheels
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

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Launching the Toilets are Beautiful Campaign

Zen and the art of wise water management Rainwater Clubs youtube channel crosses 1 million views
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Those readers who got the insider joke in the title need no introduction to the rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation evangelist that is zenrainman.

Nirmal Bharat Yatra Indias biggest ever sanitation and hygiene mela reaches its halfway point Organizers reveal exciting new formats for the last three stops
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

After 1,000 kms on the road crossing three states, organizers reveal exciting new formats for the last three stops of the Yatra

Sewagram, Maharashtra (Oct 3-5)

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra in Madhya Pradesh Two schools two toilets one behaviour
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

As the sanitation and hygiene campaign (Nirmal Bharat Yatra) moved from Maharastra to Madhya Pradesh, our halt on the outskirts of Indore brought us face-to-face with grim realities. Two schools that I visited had structures that in some government file were passed off as toilets.

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