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Provision of communal facilities reduces but does not end the problem of open defecation in poverty pockets, according to a new study in Bhopal, India. Women appear to be relatively poorly served by communal facilities and, cost is a barrier to use by poorer households. Read more...
In rural India, extremes of coercion are being used to encourage toilet use writes Liz Chatterjee in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog. Her provocative post has drawn comments from the likes of Robert Chambers, Rose George, Ned Breslin and Erik Harvey. Read more...
Interesting key message emerge from a new Research Brief from a recent WSP/World Bank study to improve understanding of the financing of on-site sanitation at the household level through analysis of field experiences in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India (Maharashtra), Mozambique, Senegal,... Read more...
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...
Despite a significant increase in public water supply, one million families in Chennai, about a third of the city's population, rely on sachets, PET bottles and cans of water for daily consumption. Sales of packaged water continue to soar in a state that already has 680 licensed private drinking... Read more...
Prisoners in Orissa state, India and in Sunsari District, eastern Nepal, are being deprived of proper sanitation and safe drinking paper, according to local newspaper reports. India, Orissa At a meeting in April 2011 on jail administration, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked officials... 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...
Some 385 primary schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have no water purifiers. They are supplied by water tankers of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). A recent study by the MCD health department showed that 18 per cent of tanker water supplied by the DJB is contaminated. Therefore the... Read more...
India is sitting on 89.95 billion rupees (US$ 2 billion) of unused foreign aid for water supply and sanitation, according to a report by government auditor Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG). As of 31 March 2010, unutilised committed external assistance for 16 sectors, including water... Read more...
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) launched its Facebook page in January 2011 and an integrated SMS service in March 2011 to enable public monitoring of garbage collection sites and public urinals/toilets in areas under its jurisdiction. In the first month of operation 99 per cent of the... 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...
Photo: G.N.Rao, The Hindu Photo: G.N. Rao, The Hindu These extraordinary photos were published last year, March 2010, on International Women's Day in The Hindu here and here . They show a group of tribal women drawing water from an agricultural well at Govind Tanda in Karepalli mandal (division) of... 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...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
The Delhi Jal Board (city water board) has approved levying sewerage development charges on those premises which do not have a DJB water connection, or have a cut-off connection, but discharge sewage into its sewer system. The monthly levy will be in the range of 150 to 2,500 Indian rupees [US$ 3... Read more...
The Karnataka state Legislative Assembly has extended the deadline making it mandatory for citizens in Greater Bangalore to install rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems. The extension, as drawn up in the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Bill 2011, was approved unanimously by 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...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
"Across India, there is a rising tide of water privatisation projects made possible in recent years by a radical departure in the way national policy views water. Water is no longer just a public service to be delivered by governments but a resource to be managed well if need be, with the... Read more...