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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)
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)
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)
May 11, 2021
Bathing spaces for women - crucial for WASH!
Bathing spaces and not toilets alone, aid women in maintaining health and hygiene. It is time the Swachh Bharat Mission pays attention to bathing spaces as well!
A temperory bathing space with no water and privacy in a fishing village in Tamil Nadu (Image Source: India Water Portal)
December 20, 2020
Putting faecal sludge management on track
The cost and revenue projections for both on-demand and scheduled desludging scenarios were elaborated upon in the faecal sludge management plan for Dhen­kanal Municipality.
Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant at Dhenkanal, Odisha
December 18, 2020
Faecal sludge management policy environment for small towns: Taking a wider view
Project Nirmal helped Odisha to become a front runner among states with a comprehensive policy framework on faecal sludge management.
Odisha is trying to fa­cilitate adoption of FSM by Urban Local Bodies so that sewage, septage/ faecal sludge, and liquid waste is safely managed, treated, and dis­posed. (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)
PDS rations only for those with toilets in Sheopur
Posted on 31 Jan, 2017 10:19 AM

PDS rations only for BPL households with toilets in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh
What WatSan needs from budget
The water and sanitation sector in India is in urgent need for funds to show results. The budget 2017-2018 should look into it.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 26 Jan, 2017 08:20 AM

According to a report by WaterAid, a water and sanitation nonprofit, released in 2016, India has the highest number (75.8 million) of people in the world without access to safe water.
Drinking water source in a village at Kawardha, Chhattisgarh
Corporations lack clarity on Swachh Bharat cess fund usage
Posted on 23 Jan, 2017 04:48 PM

Most city corporations in the dark about the usage of funds under the Swachh Bharat cess
WB funds for Swachh Bharat yet to be released
Posted on 17 Jan, 2017 01:07 PM

Swachh Bharat funds promised by the World Bank yet to be released 
Weather or not: Women workers need care in summer
There is a grave health concern around women manual workers who work under extreme conditions of heat with poor access to sanitary facilities. This needs urgent redressal at the policy level.
Vidhya Venugopal et al
Posted on 11 Jan, 2017 10:49 AM

In a tropical country like India, the summer months are hot which threaten the health of millions of people every year.
Women work under poor working conditions. (Source: Wkimedia Commons)
Cleanliness survey Swachh Survekshan 2017 underway
Posted on 09 Jan, 2017 11:00 AM

Sanitation, cleanliness indicators of 500 cities to be recorded and rated by Swachh Survekshan 2017
Now rate public toilets in Coimbatore with a smiley
Posted on 03 Jan, 2017 10:07 AM

Coimbatore corporation to set up 'smiley terminals' outside public toilets on a trial basis
Google launches public toilet finder app
Posted on 26 Dec, 2016 11:58 AM

Google launches toilet finder app in Delhi NCR and Madhya Pradesh
Identifying WASH barriers
Policies that address the WASH need to acknowledge the presence of a glass curtain that curtails access to its appropriate gender and age-related services.
Reeba Devaraj
Posted on 22 Dec, 2016 10:31 PM

As night falls, women in Chempakaraman beach on the Pulluvila coastal belt in Thiruvananthapuram step out of their safe abode and leave for the open fields. The barking of stray dogs send a chill down their spine but still, these women brave the odds and venture into the darkness as it is an urgency.
A coastal village with poor sanitation facilities in South India (Source: India Water Portal)
Stunting in India: The sanitation connect
India has the highest number of stunted children worldwide. Not just toilet numbers, but poor toilet use and hygiene behaviour too need urgent redressal at the policy level to reduce stunting.
Aarti Kelkar-Khambete
Makarand Purohit
Posted on 22 Dec, 2016 11:57 AM

On Children’s Day on November 14 this year, two organisations in Odisha--Shramajeebee Sangathan (SJS), Malkangiri and Jeebika Suraksha Mancha, Kandhamal--organised a massive padayatra (street walk) in villages as an awareness drive and to mobilise communities to curb m
Rally on nutrition awareness by Jeebika Suraksha Manch, Odisha (Source: Amir Khan)
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