Toilets and Urinals
Compendium of sanitation success stories from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Posted on 24 Apr, 2015 02:02 PMOne of the stated Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations is to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation and to halve the proportion of population left without the same by 2015.
Swachh Punjab' is a stinking reality
Posted on 13 Apr, 2015 12:54 PMWhenever Nachatar Singh’s wife and children fall sick, he blames it on the groundwater they pull out everyday using a hand pump in his courtyard at Veere Wala Kalan village of Faridkot district. Singh swears that the problem started only recently. “The same tap used to fetch such good quality water thanks to seepage from the Gang canal which runs around 1 km from our place.
Compendium of innovative technologies in rural drinking water and sanitation
Posted on 09 Apr, 2015 01:01 PMRecognizing the importance of technology in providing safe drinking water and hygienic living conditions, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has come out with a booklet on innovative and cost effective solutions to provide potable water and sanitation in rural areas.
Gujarat No.1 in implementing Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 07 Apr, 2015 09:13 PMSwachh Bharat Mission: Gujarat leads the implementation
E-book on rural sanitation and drinking water
Posted on 07 Apr, 2015 09:29 AMProvisions relating to water and sanitation are among the 61 items listed as ‘State Subjects’ under the Seventh Schedule in Part XI of the Constitution of India. Despite being catalogued as the responsibility of the states, the Union Government pitches in to supplement the former’s efforts.
Swachh Bharat Mission: Guidelines
Posted on 20 Mar, 2015 11:28 AMThe responsibility of implementing the Swachh Bharat Mission is shared between the Ministries of Urban Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation. While the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) is responsible for sanitation in urban areas, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) is in charge of the same in rural India.
Budget 2015: Sanitation and the Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 11 Mar, 2015 04:03 PMDespite India’s multi-decade battle to eliminate open defecation, toilets are absent in 69% of rural India (Census 2011).
Rural sanitation is primarily funded by the Union Government. The state governments and beneficiaries contribute towards construction and maintenance of toilets as well.
Behaviour change communication for sanitation: campaign materials
Posted on 09 Mar, 2015 03:58 PMIn partnership with the Government of Karnataka, Arghyam ran a communication campaign aimed at creating a demand for improved sanitation.
On-site sanitation systems: Flash cards on managing faecal sludge and effluents
Posted on 08 Mar, 2015 12:23 PMOn-site sanitation systems are options which help treat the waste at source, rather than dealing with it several miles away in a centralized manner. In the absence of sewerage systems and piped supplies, communities have to devise decentralized ways to deal with their shit. Some of the most common on-site sanitation systems include septic tanks and pit latrines.
A hard look at the strategy of fighting open defecation
Posted on 05 Mar, 2015 10:31 PMWith over 620 million defecating in the open in India, do we need a new approach to curb this practice? The force of habit is such that even households with toilets have around forty percent of adults defecating in the open. But, does curbing open defecation necessarily lead to significant improvements in child health outcomes like diarrhoea, anaemia, parasite infection and growth?