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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)
Manual scavenging persists in India due to weak enforcement of laws
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 18 Nov, 2019 08:01 PM

Manual scavenging still prevails in India thanks to weak laws, says study
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Free septic tank cleaning in Delhi; CM attempts to reduce sewer deaths
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 18 Nov, 2019 07:59 PM

Delhi CM announces free sewage cleaning schemes for unauthorised colonies
Image credit: Sharada Prasad
When the sewers get blocked: sanitation labour in urban India
On World Toilet Day, we bring to light the labour of India’s sewer workers - those who do the unclean work that a Clean India relies on.
CS Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray
Posted on 15 Nov, 2019 12:07 PM

Photo credit: Sharada Prasad
Call for Papers for the National Policy Symposium 2019
Tata Institute of Social Sciences is organising the National Policy Symposium with the theme 'Water for Sustainable Future: A Policy Perspective'.
Posted on 06 Nov, 2019 04:36 PM

How Delhi's air pollution emergency links back to water
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Nov, 2019 12:08 PM

The link between water and Delhi's air pollution crisis
Delhi-NCR shrouded under toxic haze (Source: India Water Portal)
13th Annual Global Water Alliance Conference 2020
The Global Water Alliance (GWA), an international NGO, is organising the GWA conference 2020 with an aim to achieve WASH sustainability goals for developing countries.
Posted on 21 Oct, 2019 04:03 PM

About the conference:
Goa fights to protect its khazans; Coonoor cleans its river; Punjab gov scrambles to clean Kali Bein River before Gurupurab
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 10 Oct, 2019 11:36 AM

Goa government, farmers against MoEF for proposing re-designation of the state’s low lying lands
Aerial view of a Khazan in the Zuari river, Goa.
Centre all set to sustain country's ODF status
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 02 Oct, 2019 11:12 AM

National rural sanitation strategy launched to sustain open defecation-free (ODF) status 
A toilet constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Water levels in major reservoirs rise to 85 percent of overall capacity: CWC
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 24 Sep, 2019 10:31 PM

Reservoir levels increase to 85 percent of overall capacity this year
Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Manual scavenging is inhumane: SC
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 24 Sep, 2019 01:08 PM

Supreme Court question authorities on why manual scavenging still prevails
Despite the ban, manual scavenging continues. (Image courtesy: The Hindu)
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