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Voluntary Citizen or Civil Society Sector
Gearing to overcome water quality woes
Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 05:22 PMIndia has the most people in the world without access to safe drinking water (133.9 million). Many studies indicate that poor and marginalized populations are the worst affected from waterborne diseases resulting from the consumption of contaminated water.
![HWTS solutions are best suited for villages (Image: WaterAid)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sf2-pic-wateraid.jpg?itok=RsqVd4oY)
Springing back to life
Posted on 20 Apr, 2020 11:45 PMSprings are the key source of water for rural households in Uttarakhand, yet they have seen an overall neglect over the decades with discharge from many springs declining bit by bit. The depletion of aquifers, changes in land use and ecological degradation have led to several initiatives to address springshed management in the state. We speak to Dr.
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WASH in the times of COVID-19
Posted on 17 Apr, 2020 10:08 PMMaharashtra has the highest COVID-19 cases in the country and the government is taking a slew of measures to flatten the curve. We speak to Mr.
![Students handwashing with soap (Image: World Bank, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing-soap.jpg?itok=EGI_3QFB)
Covid-19: Implications for watershed management
Posted on 16 Apr, 2020 04:47 PMOver the last four decades, watershed management has emerged as one of the most decentralised, integrated, persisting, innovative and effective programs to enhance natural resources such as water, soil and the vegetative cover as well as to provide means of livelihood to marginalised sections in rural areas.
![COVID-19 has adversely affected this year's watershed management work (Image: ILO South Asia-Pacific; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/watershed1.jpg?itok=Lq6BFhAH)
Combating Covid-19 collectively: DHAN’s way
Posted on 10 Apr, 2020 12:21 PMAs the Covid-19 pandemic reaches new corners of the country, the NGO community in India has been preparing itself to respond to the unexpected needs that the crisis is producing. DHAN Foundation, a professional development organisation working in several states of India with the communities has begun to develop a strategy.
![Creating awareness about the pandemic as well as about the measures essential to be safe (Image: DHAN Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/corona1.jpg?itok=CrCV9eE2)
Online session on COVID-19 by NIMHANS Bangalore and ECHO India
Posted on 04 Apr, 2020 02:47 PMWhat is the session about?
In these difficult and uncertain times, misinformation and inadequate resources are hitting the rural communities the most. The preventive lockdown itself brings several difficulties like those of livelihood loss and mental stress.
Advisory on how to prevent Covid-19
Posted on 02 Apr, 2020 06:50 PMCOVID-19 (novel coronavirus disease), an acute respiratory disease emerged in late 2019 and has been spreading rapidly across the globe. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It is marked by respiratory problems that are usually mild (coughing, fever) but can be severe (pneumonia, trouble breathing).
![The fear is that Covid-19 would almost certainly spread within communities in India, just as it had started to do in Italy, South Korea, and Iran. (Image: Trinity Care Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/covid-faq1.jpg?itok=41VB9Eag)
Joining the battle against Covid-19
Posted on 02 Apr, 2020 10:48 AMThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared coronavirus disease a pandemic. Originating from Wuhan in China, it has traversed almost the entire globe, and claimed more than 41,000 lives, while over 8 lakh people are infected already. That’s largely the urban population.
![Keeping the communities abreast of best practices for a safe and healthy living (Image: PRADAN)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pradan1.jpg?itok=yX74kSLg)
Enabling a transition to responsive forest governance
Posted on 31 Mar, 2020 02:08 PMThe Forest Rights Act or FRA was enacted in 2006, following collective pressure from a massive social movement to correct the historical injustices imposed since the colonial takeover of India's forests.
![The state needs to be highly responsive to the needs of communities during the post-rights recognition phase (Image: Gramvaani)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tribals.jpg?itok=G8mKeeTs)
Community-led piped water supply initiative in Bihar
Posted on 28 Mar, 2020 12:34 PMWater is a precious natural resource that ensures human well-being. However, across the globe there is a severe water crisis, which is heightened by issues of inaccessibility and contamination.
![The community at the ward level of the panchayat is supposed to have complete ownership of the system created. (Image: GG Vogman, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tap2_0.jpg?itok=3j0y1m_U)