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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)
Communal versus neighbour-shared latrines: Which is better?
Posted on 29 Nov, 2015 01:20 PM

A study in Odisha found that communal latrines were less accessible, less likely to have water, were cleaned less frequently and were more likely to have visible faeces and flies.
Country's first faecal sludge treatment plant is now active in Devanahalli
Posted on 23 Nov, 2015 05:42 PM
Devanahalli's World Toilet Day present: The country's first faecal sludge treatment plant to become operational on November 19
Devanahalli near Bengaluru became the first town in the country to get a faecal sludge treatment plant for th
Green patch today, garbage dump tomorrow: DDA clears Dwarka landfill proposal
Posted on 15 Nov, 2015 11:13 PM
Delhi Development Authority decides to handover two green spaces for landfill site in Dwarka
The DDA has cleared a proposal to modify land-use and set aside green spaces for an upcoming landfill in Dwarka amidst stiff opposition from lo
Urban Development Ministry commissions sanitation survey across 75 major cities
Posted on 02 Nov, 2015 08:55 AM
Sanitation survey to be carried out in 75 towns and cities with special focus on solid waste management
The Union Ministry of Urban Development has commissioned a survey across 75 major cities to assess their overa
Delhi’s sanitation staff off on strike, yet again
Posted on 26 Oct, 2015 10:24 AM
Delhi's safai karamcharis on strike: Demand regularisation and timely payment of salary
A bulk of the 57,000 strong sanitation work-force affiliated to 27 safai karamchari unions stayed away from work demanding timely release of salaries, pay
Railway stations in and around pilrimage sites to soon be 'discharge free'
Posted on 20 Oct, 2015 10:25 AM
Railways plans to make stations in holy towns and cities 'discharge free': Rameswaram set to be the first such station
Rainwater harvesting saves their day: ‘Godrej Green Champions’ in Bangalore
Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 03:40 PM
New Delhi made heads turn a month back with its abysmal air pollution statistics. Most Indian cities seem to be fighting a losing battle with the mounting solid waste crisis. Providing safe drinking water and sanitation are herculean tasks for many civic bodies.
The unsung heroes of Mumbai
Posted on 12 Oct, 2015 12:17 AM

The 30,000-strong conservancy workers of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation truly are the unsung heroes of Mumbai
Happy Anniversary, Swachh Bharat? Not quite
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 07:26 PM
Lack of adequate information, education and communication main reason behind the limited sanitation behaviour change
 
Researchers have, time and again, pointed out the fact that the lack of proper information and ill-designed communicati
Sanitation workers forced to clean human excreta during the Ashadi Ekadashi in Pandharpur
Posted on 28 Sep, 2015 10:45 AM
Out of prefabricated toilets, sanitation workers were forced to clean human excreta during the Ashadi Ekadashi in Pandharpur
 
Despite manual scavenging being declared as illegal, sanitation workers were forced to clean human excre
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