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A woman ferrying a boat across the Kosi River in Supaul district.

Rivers and Lakes

Life between embankments: How Kosi floods shape women’s lives in Bihar

20 hours ago

15 min read

Children climb onto a wooden cart stacked with plastic drums as it rolls forward, pushed and pulled by bodies accustomed to weight. This is not play. The water they carry will decide the day’s cooking, washing, and drinking in their households.

Children’s water journeys on wheels in Shillong, Meghalaya

20 Feb 2026

4 min read

A rag picker works inside the Achan landfill, digging through piles of waste to find recyclables while facing serious health risks

Life near Achan landfill: How Srinagar’s waste crisis is endangering homes and people’s health

11 Dec 2025

10 min read

In cities like Hyderabad, some people work quietly at the city’s edge to keep the water flowing to all households when systems falter.

Urban Sanitation

Holding a leaking Hyderabad together: Inside the life of the city’s plumber

26 Oct 2025

8 min read

Groundwater in the Dhanbad area has been badly affected and most of the ground water aquifers were destroyed due to intensive mining in the area

Governance and Policy

India’s water policy: Between scarcity, reform, and a sustainable future

28 Aug 2025

6 min read

A movement focused on the eradication of manual scavenging (Image: Amita Bhaduri)

Why is manual scavenging still happening in India? A caste-based crisis ignored

13 Jun 2025

7 min read

Sustaining sanitation progress & treatment plants (Image: Niti Aayog)

Uttar Pradesh’s leap in faecal sludge management—but can the system sustain it?

26 May 2025

5 min read

Punjab, part of India's breadbasket is losing water fast, as water-guzzling crops like wheat and paddy continue to suck water at rapid rates.

From India to the USA: The growing water crisis in the breadbaskets of the world

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

09 Apr 2025

8 min read

Child malnutrition Source: The Indian Express

The sanitation-child malnutrition nexus in India

02 Jan 2025

6 min read

Children wash hands at a stand post installed in a Primary school at Kapoti Village in Karanjiya, Dhindori, Madhya Pradesh, India (Source: WaterAid India)

Rural Sanitation

Progress in WASH for India's tribal districts: A 2015-2020 analysis

23 Nov 2024

6 min read

Women and their unvoiced sanitation needs. Image for representation purposes only.

Urban Sanitation

Community led sanitation transforms women's lives

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

03 Nov 2024

5 min read

Children pose outside a toilet in India

Health and Sanitation

Swachh Bharat Mission helps reduce infant deaths in India: Study

Suman Chakrabarti

11 Oct 2024

3 min read

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