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December 13, 2022
Mobilising communities for WASH
WaterAid India’s partnership with USAID and Gap Inc. benefits 2400 villages across 7 districts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra

WaterAid has focused on establishing community-led water quality monitoring & surveillance (Image: Anil Gulati/India Water Portal Flickr)
October 15, 2022
Evaluating WaSH conditions spatially at the panchayat level
Synthesis of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) spatial pattern in rural India: an integrated interpretation of WaSH practices
People in rural areas lack potable water, and use unsafe sanitation and hygiene facilities (Image: Sebastian Dahl)
December 2, 2021
The loo loop
Public toilets and choice of work for women
Separation between women and men’s toilets (Image: Rajesh Pamnani; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
October 15, 2021
Hand hygiene, a public policy issue
Interventions to promote hand hygiene should be designed based on an understanding of what people care about, says report on ‘State of the world’s hand hygiene’
Girls learn the value of hand-washing (Image: Kristen Kelleher, USAID, Pixnio)
October 4, 2021
Understanding the thinking behind IEC in large programs
Lessons from the Swachh Bharat Mission experience
Pop culture icons like Gabbar Singh are painted on the walls of a toilet complex in New Delhi (Image: Project Raahat, Enactus)
July 6, 2021
Billions lack access to WASH services
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)
District human development report card for 10 districts the PAHELI report
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The PAHELI report (Peoples' Audit of Health Education and Livelihoods) is a rapid assessment of the prevailing status of human development in a district and covers four major sectors: life and livelihoods, water and sanitation, mother and child health, and education and literacy. The design and execution of PAHELI was done by Pratham and PAHELI district partners.
The ninth compendium of environment statistics by ministry of statistics and programme implementation 2007
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The ninth compendium of environment statistics 2007, brought out by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), provides data on five core parameters - land/soil, water, bio-diversity, atmosphere and human settlements. These statistics can be used to understand various aspects of the environment, and to explain the impact of economic activities on sustainable development as a whole and the environment in particular.

Karnataka urban drinking water and sanitation policy 2002
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Increasing urbanization has resulted in greater pressure on the existing urban water supply and sanitation systems leading to increasing demand on the one hand to augment the source and improve distribution and on the other to increase the coverage of underground drainage (UGD).

IELRC site provides information on selected Indian supreme court and high court waterrelated cases World Bank and Asian Develeopment Bank funded water projects alongwith national and state legislation related to water and sanitation
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This section on the IELRC site contains selected Indian Supreme Court and High Court cases related to water. The decisions related to water and sanitation taken by the Supreme Court since the early years after independence also includes a few cases dating back to colonial times. Notable cases include - 
Water security for residents of apartments gated communities in Bangalore An article by SS Ranganathan
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Mr. S.S. Ranganathan, author of this guest post, is a retired senior executive of Ion Exchange and currently a consultant based in Bangalore.

He can be reached at: ss.ranganathan@gmail.com , +91-9343734229

WATER SECURITY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF APARTMENTS & GATED COMMUNITIES -  S.S.Ranganathan
Learning from experience water and environmental sanitation in India UNICEF report
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

UNICEFThis report by the

Human Development Report 2006 United Nations Development Programme
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The human development report for the year 2006 published by the United Nations Development Programme focuses on water and sanitation and is divided into the following chapters:
Drinking water and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra A review of policy initiatives Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

These papers published by FORWARD provides a background on the water crisis in India and describes the water and sanitation situation in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The Asian Water Development Outlook A document by the Asian Development Bank
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This book was commissioned by the Asian Development Bank as part of its support to the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF), an independent, non-partisan, non-political network of institution
Understanding the urban poors vulnerabilities in sanitation and water supply by Barbara Evans Centre for Sustainable Urban Development 2009
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This paper by Barbara Evans was presented at the Rockerfeller Foundation Urban Summit (1-6 J
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