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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)
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.
It's not just about rape
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Nandatai and her 16 year old daughter Phula creep out of their houses quietly in the wee hours of the morning into the dark fields to relieve themselves before everyone wakes up. It is an everyday story as this is the only time in the day that they have privacy. “It is so shameful to go out in the fields during the day”, says Nandatai. “We have to hold our urine till it gets dark.

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

Assam Government issued notice over dumping of waste in Deepor Beel
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

NGT takes notice of waste dumping in Assam's Deepor Beel

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.

Swachh Bharat Mission launched on Gandhi Jayanti
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PM launches the nationwide cleanliness campaign

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

KenBetwa river link to divert 6000 hectares of Panna Tiger Reserve
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Ken-Betwa river link to take away 10% of MP's Panna Tiger Reserve

Increased subsidy for toilet construction
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Higher monetary incentives for toilet construction and delinking sanitation mission from MGNREGS

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