Amita Bhaduri

Covid-19 and water security in India: Magnifying inequities in an unequal world

The "heal as one" narrative is a false one as the poorest are the most vulnerable to the disease. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

In the absence of piped water access, poor households will find it exceedingly difficult to practice regular handwashing (Image: UNICEF, Flickr Commons)

Facing up to the water crisis

Conservation measures such as rainwater harvesting and recharging of groundwater need to be generally well established in both rural and urban areas. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Water conservation measures invariably have a positive effect on water quality and the environment (Image: Joel Bassuk / Oxfam; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Gearing to overcome water quality woes

A workshop highlights the need to give a boost to affordable household water treatment and storage technologies. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

HWTS solutions are best suited for villages (Image: WaterAid)

Springing back to life

Jal Jeevan Mission can go a long way to promote springshed management and ensure source sustainability of spring based piped water supply. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

We are all fools

Nature has now sent a stern message calling out our foolishness. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

On January 31st 2020, the WHO declared the COVID 19 crisis to be a public health emergency of international concern. (Image: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation)

WASH in the times of COVID-19

Government of Maharashtra and UNICEF Mumbai are training frontline workers to tackle the spread of COVID-19. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Students handwashing with soap (Image: World Bank, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Covid-19: Implications for watershed management

Watershed work needs to be stepped up to ensure that the lockdown does not impact the livelihoods of the rural poor. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

COVID-19 has adversely affected this year's watershed management work (Image: ILO South Asia-Pacific; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

From policy to practice: Can National Water Policy 2020 bridge the gap?

The new policy needs to build context specificity and have enabling mechanisms for equitable resource allocation. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Women extracting water from the riverbed, Gaya (Image: ICIMOD/ Prasanta Biswas; Flickr Commons)

Combating Covid-19 collectively: DHAN’s way

DHAN Foundation has been responding to the crisis, reaching out to the most vulnerable communities. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Creating awareness about the pandemic as well as about the measures essential to be safe (Image: DHAN Foundation)

Advisory on how to prevent Covid-19

Those who need to work to survive cannot stay home. What can they do during such times? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

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)

Joining the battle against Covid-19

As corona virus 'travels' to rural areas, PRADAN ramps up its response by training tribals and marginalised women. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Keeping the communities abreast of best practices for a safe and healthy living (Image: PRADAN)

Enabling a transition to responsive forest governance

NGOs involvement in implementation of the FRA provides an extremely valuable support system, study says. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

The state needs to be highly responsive to the needs of communities during the post-rights recognition phase (Image: Gramvaani)

Community-led piped water supply initiative in Bihar

For Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal to succeed, the state needs to look at water harvesting to augment groundwater availability. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

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)

Democratization of data through use of GIS technology

How technology enables monitoring and evaluation, or comparative analysis of developmental data from village to state level. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

A view of a village in Almora district of Uttarakhand (Image: Raja Harjai, Flickr Commons)

Vulnerability in the times of Corona

When a pandemic strikes, it pushes the burden on the weakest in an unequal society. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Using music to build water positive villages

A campaign tries to make watershed development work a citizens movement. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 3 months ago

Women drawing water from a village well. Prior to watershed development and integrated water management, scarcity of water was a way of life for the people of Kumbharwadi (Image: WOTR)

In deep water

Will the World Bank honor its commitments to the poor in an Indian water project? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

A water scheme violates Adivasi rights, threatens community water access and sacred spaces (Image: Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel)

Water, the first line of defence against climate change

A report by WaterAid calls for a tenfold increase in current levels of climate finance that goes to WASH services. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

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, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)

Remembering Mahad Satyagraha: Untouchability and water

Connection to basic infrastructure and access to essential services such as water are often used as a tool for social discrimination and exercise of power. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

Can the simple act of drinking water be revolutionary? (Illustration by Chetan Toliya)

Tap water to all

What can be learnt from past experiences on scaling up coverage of piped water supply? Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 4 months ago

Child drinks water from a tap (Image: Imal Hashemi/Taimani Films/World Bank, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)