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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
The human development report card is for the assessment of current status of life and livelihoods, water and sanitation, mother and child health, and education and literacy in a district
Pratham
Posted on 01 Jun, 2009 03:46 PM

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)
The statistics provide data for land/soil, water, bio-diversity, atmosphere and human settlements which can be used to understand and explain the impact of economic activities on environment
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI)
Posted on 01 Jun, 2009 02:50 PM

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)
The policy on urban drinking water and sanitation in Karnataka is made in view of different institutional structure and different sets of issues involved in the delivery of services of urban areas
Government of Karnataka
Posted on 30 May, 2009 02:25 PM

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 water-related cases, World Bank and Asian Develeopment Bank funded water projects alongwith national and state legislation related to water and sanitation
IELRC site provides selected Indian supreme court and high court cases water related and Indian projects funded by World Bank and Asian Development Bank containing conditions for legal reform.
International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC)
Posted on 30 May, 2009 09:01 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
Bangalore has grown phenomenally over the last 25 years and the pleasant ‘rural scenery’of what once were the ‘outskirts’ of Bangalore has given way to forests or jungles of concrete. These are the multi-storeyed apartment complexes which have mushroomed all over, with gated communities making a break in this concrete jungle. One wonders where the residents of these complexes and communities will find the water to live a reasonably normal life.
S.S. Ranganathan
Posted on 29 May, 2009 04:27 PM

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
Human Development Report 2006 - United Nations Development Programme
The scarcity at the heart of the global water crisis is rooted in power, poverty and inequality, not in physical availability
Kevin Watkins
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Posted on 29 May, 2009 11:23 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:
Learning from experience - water and environmental sanitation in India - UNICEF report
The report describes the efforts undertaken by UNICEF in collaboration with government of India to achieve total sanitation and water coverage in the country over the period of three decades
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Posted on 29 May, 2009 11:23 AM

UNICEFThis report by the

Drinking water and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra- A review of policy initiatives - Forum for Watershed Research and Policy Dialogue
The papers published by FORWARD provides a background on water crisis in India and describes the water and sanitation situation in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra
Keshab Das
Posted on 29 May, 2009 11:12 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
A package of factual information, data, experiences, and solutions to problems in water and sanitation sector, presented from future-oriented, multidisciplinary and multisectoral perspectives
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Posted on 29 May, 2009 11:03 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 poor's vulnerabilities in sanitation and water supply by Barbara Evans - Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (2009)
The paper highlights the plight of urban dwellers who are excluded from formal systems of water and sanitation service delivery
Barbara Evans
Posted on 29 May, 2009 10:56 AM

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