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Safe drinking water, in difficult times (Image Source: PIramal Sarvajal)

Providing safe drinking water, in difficult times!

How does Piramal Sarvajal plan to deal with the water crisis in the country?

Kids washing hands in a school. Image for representation only. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Take up this survey on hand washing being conducted by Sigma Foundation, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Water conservation measures invariably have a positive effect on water quality and the environment (Image: Joel Bassuk / Oxfam; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Conservation measures such as rainwater harvesting and recharging of groundwater need to be generally well established in both rural and urban areas.

HWTS solutions are best suited for villages (Image: WaterAid)

Gearing to overcome water quality woes

A workshop highlights the need to give a boost to affordable household water treatment and storage technologies.

Meeting the basic needs of vulnerable communities during Covid-19 (Image Source: SOPPECOM)

Vulnerable, in the time of Covid-19!

Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune has designed a Covid-19 response programme for vulnerable communities.

Springing back to life

Jal Jeevan Mission can go a long way to promote springshed management and ensure source sustainability of spring based piped water supply.

On January 31st 2020, the WHO declared the COVID 19 crisis to be a public health emergency of international concern. (Image: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation)

We are all fools

Nature has now sent a stern message calling out our foolishness.

Covid treats women differently (Image Source: Simon Williams/ Ekta Parishad via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19 leaves women in the line of fire

While the Covid-19 pandemic has affected both men and women from the informal sector differently, gender analysis is missing from India’s Covid-19 response strategy

Students handwashing with soap (Image: World Bank, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

WASH in the times of Covid-19

Government of Maharashtra and UNICEF Mumbai are training frontline workers to tackle the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-19 has adversely affected this year's watershed management work (Image: ILO South Asia-Pacific; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Covid-19: Implications for watershed management

Watershed work needs to be stepped up to ensure that the lockdown does not impact the livelihoods of the rural poor.

Villagers collecting borewell water from a private farmland (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Health Ministry advises states to ensure adequate water supply in rural areas

Policy matters this week

Women bringing water from distance sources in summers (Source: IWP Flickr photos))

Lockdown to cause severe water stress in summers

News this week

Spreading awareness on covid crucial to tackle the pandemic (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Spreading awareness on COVID-19

The Tata Trusts are reaching out to 1.2 million rural households across 21 states through a twelve-day campaign to spread awareness on COVID-19.

Women extracting water from the riverbed, Gaya (Image: ICIMOD/ Prasanta Biswas; Flickr Commons)

From policy to practice: Can National Water Policy 2020 bridge the gap?

The new policy needs to build context specificity and have enabling mechanisms for equitable resource allocation.

Farm women, the worse sufferers of the Covid 19 pandemic (Image Source: Seema Kulkarni)

Out of the frying pan into the fire

The Covid pandemic has worsened the condition of migrant women farmers, who have been left with no food, water, shelter and means of subsistence while cities have come to a standstill.