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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)
An appeal to all ‘responsible’ fathers out there !
Posted on 03 Feb, 2015 10:02 AM

Author: Vijay Krishna
Generating demand for toilets: Experiences from Davangere, Karnataka
Posted on 31 Jan, 2015 12:22 PM

Author: Radhika Viswanathan
Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 30 Jan, 2015 05:52 PM

‘Sanitation is more important than independence’, Mahatma Gandhi famously pronounced. India’s battle with total sanitation is an ongoing saga with successive governments working to provide and safeguard this basic human right for a few decades now. 
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
Swachh Bharat Mission: 80% behind target
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:14 AM

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream
Ecosan toilet built in a village
How do income levels affect water-borne diseases?
There is lack of crucial information on how urban water infrastructure influences and transforms the flow of water leading to the emergence of diseases in the process.
Saravanan V S
Mavalankar D
Kulkarni S
Nussbaum S
Weigelt M
Posted on 25 Jan, 2015 05:18 PM

Urban water infrastructure has an important role to play in public health, and includes built networks that facilitate the flow and exchange of water over space.
An illegal settlement (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Mission Sanitation - Lessons from Civil Society
Posted on 23 Jan, 2015 07:27 PM

Author: Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Swacch Bharat Mission: An opportunity to rethink public toilet governance
Althought the SBM rightly promises to secure the right to sanitation infrastructure and the right to a clean environment, it must take into consideration the sociopolitical realities of Indian cities.
Indivar Jonalagadda
Sandeep Tanniru
Posted on 21 Jan, 2015 06:15 PM

Evidence from India shows that open defecation continues to be common, and that a vast majority of the population from both urban and rural areas continue to have poor access to toilets.
Rural toilet (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
India Toilet Summit 2015 ‘Sanitation for All – Toilet First’, New Delhi, February 6, 2015
Posted on 14 Jan, 2015 01:16 PM
  • W​hat: IndiaCSR's first nation-wide Sanitation Summit
  • When: February 6, 2015
  • Where: Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi
CSR meets Sanitation
 
In a bid to take the lofty goals of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a step closer t
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