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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)
Manual scavengers lose life in Bengaluru manhole
Posted on 13 Mar, 2017 02:50 PM

Three manual scavengers die of asphyxiation trying to decongest manhole
India Sanitation Conclave and the ISC-FICCI sanitation awards, April 27-28, 2017, New Delhi
Posted on 16 Feb, 2017 12:36 PM

The India Sanitation Conclave will be a platform for deliberating on the various themes around corporate engagement in sanitation across India, from policy and regulatory enablers to best practices and business opportunity through the Build-Use-Maintain-Treat value chain.
1.14 lakh Indian villages declared open defecation free
Posted on 14 Nov, 2016 10:27 AM

1.14 lakh villages have been declared open defecation free so far across the country
Bhopal to be declared ODF by year end
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:22 AM

Bhopal to be ODF ahead of schedule
Maharashtra to use treated water better
Posted on 22 Aug, 2016 09:11 AM
Civic bodies across Maharashtra to treat and utilise STP water better
Following an unforgiving summer, civic corporations across Maharashtra have planned to use treated water from Common Effluent Treatment Pla
Renewed sense of urgency in Swachh Bharat implementation
Posted on 01 Aug, 2016 08:47 AM
Prime minister’s review meeting instills urgency in Swachh Bharat implementation in rural areas
Toilet subsidy gives way to incentives in Haryana
Posted on 24 Jul, 2016 09:24 AM
Incentives in place of subsidies for toilet construction in Haryana
Mumbai's dabbawallas to spread 'Swachh' message
Posted on 17 Jul, 2016 09:40 AM

Urban development ministry ties up with dabbawallas to spread sanitation message
Mobile app to lodge sanitation woes in Delhi slums
Posted on 11 Jul, 2016 09:37 AM
Delhi slum residents to go high tech with their sanitation complaints
Slum dwellers in the national capital will soon be able to lodge complaints related to community toilets using a mobile app.
A long way to go before total sanitation
Posted on 01 Jul, 2016 04:09 PM

Only 16 out of India's 677 districts open defecation free
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