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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)
September 26, 2022
Dirty drains 'drain' health
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
Budgetary provisions for drinking water supply continue to get priority
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
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)
April 17, 2021
Skilling and engaging first mile actors to enable local water management: Context, opportunities, and engagement possibilities
Based on conversations with Dr Tushaar Shah and Mr Ved Arya
There is an urgency to create a database of such skilled persons and engage them in future programs or on a long-term basis through different engagement models. (Image: ForWater Partners)
Cleaning up From Canada to Kharaudi
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

In 2003, President Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam visited a small village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. Kharaudi had done something he thought others could emulate.
A village becomes water secure
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Mewat, a historical region comprising of the present Mewat district of Haryana and parts of Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan, lies in a semi-arid belt. It experiences variable rainfall annually and receives, on average, 336 mm to 540 mm, as per the Mewat Development Agency.
Hailstorm destroys crop in Maharashtra
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Hailstorm destroys crop in Maharashtra
24*7 water relief for Belgaum
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

24*7 water relief for Belgaum
Dams sold but tribal issues remain unaddressed
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Dams sold but tribal issues remain unaddressed
A survey on public toilets in urban India by WASH For India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

This 15 minute question-answer survey by WASH For India, a nonprofit working on water & sanitation in India, will help understand the repercussions of poor sanitation.
PM: Teesta pact with Bdesh difficult
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PM terms Teesta pact with B'desh 'difficult'
Toilets for all: Jharkhand's Sanitation Policy
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The document titled ‘Sanitation Policy of Jharkhand’, by the Government of Jharkhand, serves as a guidance manual to follow the directives of the Nirmal Bahrat Abhiyan (NBA), a government programme to tackle open defecation in rural India.
Narmada Kshipra interlinked
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

India's first river interlinking project inuagurated
Railway stations serve contaminated water
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Drinking water at railway stations highly contaminated: Report
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