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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)
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

Intensive cleaning drive carried out by volunteers in Sabarimala goes in vain Roundup of the weeks news November 26 December 2 2012
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Intensive cleaning drive carried out by volunteers in Sabarimala goes in vain
A comprehensive study of gender issues in slums through JAGORI research News and policy update from India WASH Forum enewsletterOctober 2012
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This bi monthly e-Newsletter by the India WASH Forum provides excerpts of the JAGORI study from two slums of Delhi in 2010-11 that look at gender concerns in the context of slum sanitation in India and make some very useful recommendations.
Data on sanitation issues of states A compilation by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation provides a host of data related to the sanitation issues of different states in India.
A report on the national conference on women led water management organised by IRRAD
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Nearly 70% of India’s 1.2 billion people live in rural areas, many of which face unprecedented water shortages.
Good morning Mumbai - A film on sanitation by Rajesh Thakare and Troy Vasanth National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This film humorously depicts the day to day hurdles that the poor have to overcome  to meet their basic needs such as water and sanitation and the circumstances that force them to resort to poor sanitation related behaviour such as open defecation.
Prayasam - Using children as a vehicle for change
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Amlan Kusum Ganguly started Prayasam  to touch lives and and make a difference. Troubled by the plight of children in brick kilns and slums  and the widespread indifference towards sanitation, clean drinking water and health,  Amlan Ganguly and his organization decided to target the young to educate slum –dwellers.
Videos CIVICs work on water and sanitation in slums of Bangalore Karnataka
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Since its inception in 1992, CIVIC’s (Citizens’ Voluntary Initiative for the City) work has revolved around urban issues, especially realizing social equity in the growth of Bangalore through the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (or the Nagarapalika Act, an Act under the Constitution of India that defines how cities/towns in India need to b
Squatting rights Study by Dasra highlights the issue of access to toilets in urban India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

coverDasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation in collaboration with Omidyar Network and

Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP Roundup of the weeks news 1 7 October 2012
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP
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