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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)
Sarola’s quest for sanitation
Posted on 07 Dec, 2014 12:18 PM
Sanitation has been a national concern for over three decades now.
Ramanathapuram's tryst with total sanitation
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 12:07 PM
2002 marked the beginning of a journey that managed to inspire several panchayat leaders and workers in Ramanathapuram. The Total Sanitation Campaign was launched in June that year and within a year's time, over 15,000 individual toilets were up and functional.
Nightsoil to biogas: Mapuskar's Malaprabha
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 11:46 AM
When Dr. Mapuskar landed in Dehu village to practice medicine, there were no toilets. With no other option at hand, Mapuskar joined the hundreds of others in the village and went out in the open.
Nirmal Gram Puraskar - Changing landscapes and mindsets
Posted on 30 Nov, 2014 11:57 AM

With over 638 million people defecating in the open, India’s obsession with constructing toilets is not surprising. In a bid to arrest the number of people going out to answer nature’s call, successive governments have been pushing their total sanitation drive under different names.
Invitation to the '5th edition of Waste Management Summit 2014', CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra
The summit provides a unique platform for all key stakeholders to address various issues and challenges on waste management.
Posted on 28 Nov, 2014 03:46 PM

Get more information of the Summit.

Know more about CII-Godrej GBC.
5th edition of Waste Management Summit 2014
No toilet, no job
Panchayat presidents of Namakkal district get people to build toilets at home by banning them from work until they do so.
Divya N
Posted on 28 Nov, 2014 03:04 PM

Thipramahadevi Pudhur is a village in Erumapatti Block, Namakkal District with 115 households. In July this year, this village was declared as ‘open-defecation free’ (ODF), something that was aided by Leaf Society, an organization based in Namakkal and their effective strategy of awareness generation, and leveraging of government loans to communities via convergence. 
Billboard declaring Thipramahadevi Pudhur ODF
Water Aid launches tool to track Swachh Bharat Mission
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 25 Nov, 2014 11:15 AM

An interactive tool to monitor progress of toilet construction launched
Toilet under construction in Karnataka
Toilets and social networks: Is there a connection?
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM
Of late, there have been plenty of discussions around the topic of sanitation, which have focussed on building toilets on a massive scale.
SC rebukes Central and State Pollution Control Boards over Ganga pollution
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Pollution Control Board is a story of complete failure, frustration and disaster: SC
Factors affecting toilet adoption in rural India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Since the rebranding of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to the Swach Bharat Mission, newspapers have been flooded with articles and discussions on the need to improve the sanitation scenario in India.
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