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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)
India to get solarpowered toilet
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

India to get its first solar-powered toilet

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.
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
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
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.
New law to save the Ganga
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

PMO approves law to protect Ganga river
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