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August 10, 2024
Changing waterscapes trigger the spread of Zika in urban India 
While citizens need to play their part to prevent diseases such as Zika, municipal bodies/urban area authorities need to pull their socks up and set right the poor governance mechanisms that are slowly turning cities into hotbeds of diseases, filth and mismanagement.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, the culprit for causing Zika (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
July 28, 2024
Tap into the numbers: Budget insights on WASH
The budget allocation for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation reflects a steady upward trajectory, underscoring the importance of scaling financial commitments to meet the growing demands of the WASH sector.
Child drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)
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)
October 20, 2023
Building community expertise in planning, designing, and overseeing WASH systems
A holistic approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
July 12, 2023
Saamuhika Shakti: Empowering Bangalore waste pickers to live dignified lives
A collective impact effort, the first of its type in India that provides informal waste pickers a chance to live safe and dignified lives, with particular emphasis on gender and equity.
Waste pickers and sorters working hard to extract recyclable value from the waste we throw out (Image: Vinod Sebastian/ Saamuhika Shakti)
June 26, 2023
Social innovation in urban sanitation in India: Meeting unmet needs
While governmental efforts have contributed greatly to improving urban sanitation in the country and are much discussed in literature, systematic documentation and critical analysis of efforts made by nongovernmental institutions continues to be invisible in the discourse on sanitation and needs to be acknowledged, argues this book.
Urban sanitation, a growing challenge in India (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)
Deltas sinking thanks to dams
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Deltas sinking, thanks to dams
Piped water only for 40% of the middle class
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Piped water only for 40% of the middle class
No toilets for 52% of Delhi slum kids
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

No toilets for 52% Delhi slum kids
Delhi prone to floods: IPCC
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Delhi prone to floods: IPCC
Himalayan glaciers may thin down by 2100
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Himalayan glaciers could lose two-third mass by 2100
Abolish manual scavenging: SC
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Abolish manual scavenging: SC
Thermal power plants Indias biggest water guzzling industry
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Thermal power plants India's biggest water guzzling industry
India will be the hotspot of water crisis by 2025: UN
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

India will be the hotspot of water crisis by 2025: UN
IPCC alarms India of a severe water shortage
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

IPCC releases its climate change report, alarms India of severe water shortage
The water and energy nexus
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The Water and energy nexus

A report released by the United Nations in Tokyo this World Water Day says places where people do not have adequate access to water largely coincide with those where people have no electric power
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