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December 13, 2022 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)
September 26, 2022 This study found that the sanitary quality of neighbourhood drains, in addition to toilets, affected sanitation and hygiene and incidences of ill-health in rural households.
Dirty drainages, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)
February 10, 2022 Budget for sanitation sees a decline
Jal Jeevan Mission has picked up pace after two years (Image: Anita Martinz, Wikimedia Commons,  CC-A-2.0 Generic)
October 4, 2021 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 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)
Open defecation continues in rural India despite increased toilet construction
Posted on 24 Apr, 2017 10:32 AM

Despite increased toilet construction, open defecation lives on in rural India

Uttarakhand to be open defecation free soon
Posted on 16 Apr, 2017 09:45 PM

Uttarakhand all set to become open defecation free by May

Transgenders can now use public toilets of their choice
Posted on 09 Apr, 2017 10:42 AM

Centre issues guidelines allowing transgender people to use public toilets of their choice

Worn out buses become 'Toilets for Her' in Pune
Posted on 27 Mar, 2017 12:25 AM

Pune municipal corporation converts worn out buses into toilets

Karnataka minister proposes legalising manual scavenging
Posted on 20 Mar, 2017 01:00 PM

Karnataka for making manual scavenging legal to get rid of pesky scavenger deaths

Manual scavengers lose life in Bengaluru manhole
Posted on 13 Mar, 2017 02:50 PM

Three manual scavengers die of asphyxiation trying to decongest manhole

Bacteria to keep airport toilets clean in Mumbai
Posted on 05 Mar, 2017 11:27 PM

Bacteria and enzyme-filled green chemicals to clean toilets in Mumbai International Airport's Terminal 2

Bureaucrats remove sludge from twin pit toilets
Posted on 27 Feb, 2017 03:35 PM

Officials attempt to end stigma by emptying sludge from twin pit toilets 

Mumbai's crumbling toilets pose health, safety risks
Posted on 20 Feb, 2017 12:18 PM

Crumbling public sanitation infrastructure poses huge existential threat in Mumbai slums

India Sanitation Conclave and the ISC-FICCI sanitation awards, April 27-28, 2017, New Delhi
Posted on 16 Feb, 2017 12:36 PM

The India Sanitation Conclave will be a platform for deliberating on the various themes around corporate engagement in sanitation across India, from policy and regulatory enablers to best practices and business opportunity through the Build-Use-Maintain-Treat value chain.

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