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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)
Drinking water costs Rs 400 per month in Manipur
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Manipur villagers spend Rs 400 per month on drinking water
Siang Basin dams study inadequate: NGO
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Siang Basin dams' study inadequate: NGO
Want to build a toilet?
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

The Government of Jharkhand has published a technical document in order to encourage the construction and usage of toilets in the state of Jharkhand. The manual begins with an introduction to Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), a government programme to tackle open defecation in rural India.
Indias embankments flood Nepal
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Uninformed construction on the Indian side floods Nepal

Construction of embankments and dykes along Kaliganga river in Uttarakhand results in floods in Nepal's Dharchula district downstream.
New law to save the Ganga
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PMO approves law to protect Ganga river
Sikkim achieves 100 sanitation under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Sikkim achieves 100% sanitation
The great Indian toilet tracker
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Women patiently wait for the sun to go down, to squat in open fields. Young children do so unabashedly on the roads under the open skies. Well into our 67th year of independence, the sanitation situation hasn't changed much in villages and towns across the nation.
If you dont clean our shit then who will
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

"Swaraj is a meaningless term, if we desire to keep a fifth of India under perpetual subjection, and deliberately deny to them the fruits of national culture". - Mahatma Gandhi
Sikkim is toilet state of India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Sikkim only state in the country with 100% sanitation
Contaminated water caused 13000 deaths in 4 years
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Contaminated water killed 13,000 in last four years
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