Sanitation and Hygiene

Featured Articles
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)
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan is now Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Centre approves reconstituting the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan into Swachh Bharat Mission
Furious Jhelum claims 160 lives
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

J&K reels under the worst flood in 60 years
Ending open defecation requires changing mind SQUAT Survey
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

A recent survey of Sanitation Quality, Use, Access, and Trends (SQUAT Survey) of 3,200 households in over 300 villages in 13 districts of rural Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, conducted by the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (r.i.c.e.), sheds light on why years of govern
3 major decisions to revive the Ganga within 3 years
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Government identifies 11 states along Ganga for sewer link
Sanitation and trees are rural employment guarantee schemes top priorities
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Centre allocates 50% MGNREGA funds to sanitation and green cover
Budget 2014 A water perspective
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The 2014 Union Budget is being hailed as both challenging and decisive. Various important water issues such as rivers, watershed and safe drinking water have been addressed, money earmarked and plans and programmes announced. 
31% of Bangalores groundwater not drinkable
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

"Growing garbage menace ups nitrate content in lakes", said a recent headline in the Deccan Herald that highlighted a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on illegal dumping sites situated near water bodies in Bangalore.
Centres 100 day plan Construct one toilet per second
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Centre all set to construct 5.2 million toilets by August 31
Poor sanitation brings down enrollment of girls in schools
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Dip in enrollment of female students due to poor sanitation in schools
Water allocation to stay the same for Telangana and Andhra
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Telangana formed but no change in water allocation
Subscribe to Sanitation and Hygiene
×