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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)
Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 30 Jan, 2015 05:52 PM

‘Sanitation is more important than independence’, Mahatma Gandhi famously pronounced. India’s battle with total sanitation is an ongoing saga with successive governments working to provide and safeguard this basic human right for a few decades now. 
Integrated and context-specific sanitation solutions needed as India gears up to build millions of toilets
Posted on 28 Jan, 2015 03:54 PM

Arghyam, a grant making foundation working in water and sanitation in India, hosted a workshop on 27th January 2015 at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore to understand the interface between groundwater and sanitation in India.
Wanted: Efficient workers and simple systems to make India open defecation free
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:37 AM

Author: Madhavi Purohit
Swachh Bharat Mission: 80% behind target
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:14 AM

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream
Ecosan toilet built in a village
Mission Sanitation - Lessons from Civil Society
Posted on 23 Jan, 2015 07:27 PM

Author: Amrtha Kasturi Rangan
Swacch Bharat Mission: An opportunity to rethink public toilet governance
Althought the SBM rightly promises to secure the right to sanitation infrastructure and the right to a clean environment, it must take into consideration the sociopolitical realities of Indian cities.
Indivar Jonalagadda
Sandeep Tanniru
Posted on 21 Jan, 2015 06:15 PM

Evidence from India shows that open defecation continues to be common, and that a vast majority of the population from both urban and rural areas continue to have poor access to toilets.
Rural toilet (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
India Toilet Summit 2015 ‘Sanitation for All – Toilet First’, New Delhi, February 6, 2015
Posted on 14 Jan, 2015 01:16 PM
  • W​hat: IndiaCSR's first nation-wide Sanitation Summit
  • When: February 6, 2015
  • Where: Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi
CSR meets Sanitation
 
In a bid to take the lofty goals of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a step closer t
Water news: A recap of 2014
Water made big news in 2014 with the formation of the new Water Ministry, initiation of the Swachh Bharat Mission, disasters due to erratic weather, and several scientific achievements.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Jan, 2015 09:58 PM

New Water Ministry, Clean Ganga Portal, Ganga Manthan: Goverment makes efforts towards rejuvenating the Ganga
Sunset at Gadmukhteshwar
Toilet torture: Women and their woes in the slums of Mumbai
Posted on 02 Jan, 2015 01:15 PM

While the burden of bad sanitation affect men and women, its consequences are far worse for the latter. Bad sanitation results not only in poor health but also greatly limits women’s mobility and freedom affecting their safety and impeding them from living a dignified life.
Sulabh International welcomes the Prime Minister's call for a Swachh Bharat
Posted on 30 Dec, 2014 11:42 AM
Mahatma Gandhi called out for everyone to be his own scavenger in the early decades of the 20th century. Nearly 100 years later, 2014 saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi articulate his vision for a clean India, through the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
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