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Corporatising water: India's draft National Water Policy - A document published in the IATP

This document published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) warns of the growing perception of water as an economic good and argues that a new consortium of business and international finance is systematically trying to influence how the world’s water will be allocated in future. This consortium seeks to promote policies that will treat water primarily as an economic good to be bought and sold, rather than a fundamental right. Because the consortium works directly with governments, or its office-holders, its initiatives are proceeding without much public awareness or attention.Read More

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Institutionalization of users' level - Water quality monitoring and surveillance in Gujarat - A report by WASMO

WASMOThis report by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO) presents the impact of the Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQM&S) Programme implemented in Gujarat, which focused on community involvement in assessing and evaluating water quality.

It has been found that waterborne diseases due to contaminated drinking water are rampant in the state of Gujarat along with chronic illnesses associated with the presence of chemical contaminants in the drinking water. Community involvement in managing water quality has been identified as an important step to deal with this situation. Read More

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Virological evaluation of domestic water purification devices in India - Inadequate quality and the need for virological standards - Tropical Medicine and International Health

This paper published in the journal Tropical Medicine and International Health describes the findings of the study conducted by the National Institute of Virology, Pune, that aimed at evaluating the performance of domestic water purification units with respect to contaminating enteric viruses.

Consumption of microbiologically contaminated water can lead to a range of bacterial diseases such as amoebiasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, leptospirosis, legionellosis, campylobacteriosis, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, gastroenteritis and viral infections such as hepatitis A, hepatitis E, diarrhoea as well as several enteroviral diseases.Read More

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Safe and sustainable clean water access – Case studies by Whitman Direct Action examining the socio-political and technological obstacles to water development in India

This Whitman Direct Action Water Book features a collection of case studies and essays contributed by NGOs working on clean water development projects in India. It examines the socio-political and technological obstacles to water development in India and has become a transparent resource for other NGOs, the government sector, academics, and interested individuals to glean the expertise of their contemporaries in the fields of water development and water purification technology.Read More

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