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July 6, 2021 If trends persist, billions will be left without critical, life-saving WASH services, says a SDG monitoring report

Between 2016 and 2020, the global population with safely managed drinking water at home increased from 70% to 74% (Image: Pxhere)
For the community, led by the community: CLTS experiments in Bihar
Posted on 21 Jul, 2015 08:37 PM

The Swachh Bharat Mission’s baseline survey report of 2012 named Odisha and Bihar as the states having the worst sanitation figures in the entire nation. While 88% of households in Odisha had no toilets, the figure stood at 78% for the state of Bihar.

Swasth Seema: A village's journey towards ODF status
Posted on 20 May, 2015 12:55 PM

Not unlike most villages that make up rural India, Seema in Rajgir block of Nalanda district showed little interest in structured sanitation. Open defecation was rampant and a sizeable chunk of the village’s earnings was spent on tending to the ill and diseased. Little did the villagers know that a change in tradition was imminent.

Compendium of sanitation success stories from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 24 Apr, 2015 02:02 PM

One of the stated Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations is to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation and to halve the proportion of population left without the same by 2015.

E-book on rural sanitation and drinking water
Posted on 07 Apr, 2015 09:29 AM

Provisions relating to water and sanitation are among the 61 items listed as ‘State Subjects’ under the Seventh Schedule in Part XI of the Constitution of India. Despite being catalogued as the responsibility of the states, the Union Government pitches in to supplement the former’s efforts.

Swachh Bharat Mission: Guidelines
Posted on 20 Mar, 2015 11:28 AM

The responsibility of implementing the Swachh Bharat Mission is shared between the Ministries of Urban Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation. While the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) is responsible for sanitation in urban areas, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) is in charge of the same in rural India.

Behaviour change communication for sanitation: campaign materials
Posted on 09 Mar, 2015 03:58 PM

In partnership with the Government of Karnataka, Arghyam ran a communication campaign aimed at creating a demand for improved sanitation. 

Book: 'Sanitation in Gram Panchayats' from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
Posted on 04 Mar, 2015 07:49 PM

The 73rd amendment to the Constitution of India made Gram Panchayats the hub of all activities in the rural sphere. It gave legitimacy to Panchayat institutions, devolving powers as well as finances for their effective functioning.

Integrated and context-specific sanitation solutions needed as India gears up to build millions of toilets
Posted on 28 Jan, 2015 03:54 PM

Arghyam, a grant making foundation working in water and sanitation in India, hosted a workshop on 27th January 2015 at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore to understand the interface between groundwater and sanitation in India.

Wanted: Efficient workers and simple systems to make India open defecation free
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:37 AM

Author: Madhavi Purohit

Churu, Rajasthan's sanitation oasis
Posted on 18 Dec, 2014 05:27 PM

With empty fields as far as eyes can perceive and perpetual water shortage, introducing flush toilets sure seemed the biggest challenge in the predominantly dry state of Rajasthan. A total of 321 Gram Panchayats have won the Nirmal Gram Puraskar in the state, but in India’s largest state, this amounts to less than 4% of the total number of Gram Panchayats present.

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