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The Rotary Club will spend 5.5 million Rupees (US$ 121,000) to provide clean drinking water and proper sanitation in schools in Mussoorie, said Rotary District 3080 Governor Madhukar Malhotra. DG Malhotra was attending a programme on the Sanitation and Drinking Water Project for schools held at the... Read more...
More than five projects aiming to augment water supply for the growing Mumbai metropolitan region are facing opposition from locals and the tribal population in rural areas. They are demanding that they get water first before going ahead with the projects. The projects, financed by the Mumbai... Read more...
[caption id="attachment_5121" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="With this photo on Facebook local resident Akshay Arora asks the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to "kindly send some one and get it clean this Toilet/Urinal". One day later on 7 April 2011, MCD replied: "Your complaint... Read more...
Arsenic affected patients from West Bengal. Photo: SOES Bone deformities due to arsenic poisoning of groundwater are common among the youth in Bengal, the Indian army has found. Less than 100 youths among the 2,000 who turned up for an army recruitment drive in February 2012, passed the physical... Read more...
S.M. Sehgal Foundation received the 3rd National Ground Water Augmentation Award-2009 on the occasion of World Water Day 2011. The award, instituted by the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, is given for “innovative practices of groundwater augmentation through rainwater harvesting... Read more...
Big brother will soon be watching over garbage truck drivers in East Delhi once the local municipal corporation installs an electronic tracking system. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) plans to install global positioning system (GPS) and radio frequency identification devices (RFID) in... Read more...
Hygiene papers One of the full papers presented at the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The... Read more...
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development ( NABARD ) has approved a INR 1.27 billion (US$ 28 million) project to tackle the drinking water problem in Mahendragarh district of Haryana state. The project will supply water to 64 water-starved villages and 34 dhanies (clusters) at a rate... Read more...
This study reviews the performance, use and operation and maintenance requirements of sanitation systems in low-income areas in India and Thailand... Read more...
Hygiene papers One of the full papers presented at the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The... Read more...
In the Safe Water II programme (2015-2018) we map tools and approaches that local businesses in household water treatment products use to start and scale up their business. Read more...
"Human beings are being used to plug the gaps in failing sanitation systems" – Bezwada Wilson. Read more...
On WaterCouch.tv, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp shares a practical example of international cooperation between BRAC in Bangladesh and the All India Organization of Imams of Mosques, which emerged during the 2013 World Water Day celebrations in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read more...
How and why businesses in the Safe Water 2 programme do their monitoring. Read more...
Join us at SACOSAN-VI to talk about sharing data for decision making on WASH in Schools Read more...
In this video Urs Heierli, social marketing expert and advisor to the Safe Water II project, talks about the necessary paradigm shift to household water treatment systems.
Read more...Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar promotes hygiene and sanitation as South Asia UNICEF Ambassador. Read more...