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Women benefit the most, when potable water reaches straight to their homes (Image: Shree Padre via IWP Flickr photos)

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) on Jal Jeevan Mission

All you need to know on Jal Jeevan Mission, a time-bound mission-mode programme that was launched in 2019 to provide water to all by 2024.

The state needs to be highly responsive to the needs of communities during the post-rights recognition phase (Image: Gramvaani)

Enabling a transition to responsive forest governance

NGOs involvement in implementation of the FRA provides an extremely valuable support system, study says.

Har nal me jal, a pipe dream? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Clean drinking water: Still a pipe dream for Maharashtra?

While water supply coverage has improved over the years in Maharashtra, why does safe and continuous water supply still remain a distant dream for the state?

The community at the ward level of the panchayat is supposed to have complete ownership of the system created. (Image: GG Vogman, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Community-led piped water supply initiative in Bihar

For Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal to succeed, the state needs to look at water harvesting to augment groundwater availability.

A view of a village in Almora district of Uttarakhand (Image: Raja Harjai, Flickr Commons)

Democratization of data through use of GIS technology

How technology enables monitoring and evaluation, or comparative analysis of developmental data from village to state level.

Vulnerability in the times of Corona

When a pandemic strikes, it pushes the burden on the weakest in an unequal society.

Women drawing water from a village well. Prior to watershed development and integrated water management, scarcity of water was a way of life for the people of Kumbharwadi (Image: WOTR)

Using music to build water positive villages

A campaign tries to make watershed development work a citizens movement.

Banks of the Ramganga river (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

One in every two individuals will be living in water-stressed regions by 2050: Report

News this week

An industrial area in Chhattisgarh (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

A national action plan to ensure sustainable and responsible business on the anvil

Policy matters this week

Food wastage also implies wastage of water (Image Source: WOTR)

Virtual water and water footprint

How much water do we consume directly and indirectly?

A water scheme violates Adivasi rights, threatens community water access and sacred spaces (Image: Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel)

In deep water

Will the World Bank honor its commitments to the poor in an Indian water project?

Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)

Water, the first line of defence against climate change

A report by WaterAid calls for a tenfold increase in current levels of climate finance that goes to WASH services.

Can the simple act of drinking water be revolutionary? (Illustration by Chetan Toliya)

Remembering Mahad Satyagraha: Untouchability and water

Connection to basic infrastructure and access to essential services such as water are often used as a tool for social discrimination and exercise of power.

Is our tap water really safe? (Image Source: IWP Flickr Photos)

Clean water, a crucial weapon to combat COVID -19

The recent COVID -19 pandemic highlights the important role that access to clean water can play in dealing with such diseases in the future.

Child drinks water from a tap (Image: Imal Hashemi/Taimani Films/World Bank, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Tap water to all

What can be learnt from past experiences on scaling up coverage of piped water supply?

Floods in Uttarakhand in 2013 severely damaged hundreds of villages across Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Tehri regions (Image: Oxfam International, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Outreach of current disaster-related apps in India poor

Technology and crowdsourced data need to play a greater role in disaster management in India.

Polluted drinking water, a grave health hazard (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Poisonous encounters: Nitrates in drinking water

A study finds that long term exposure to high levels of nitrates in drinking water can lead to health effects such as shorter height or stunting.

A school boy from Tilonia in semi-arid region of Rajasthan drinks from a tap from a rainwater harvesting tank that provides clean drinking water. (Image: Barefoot photographers of Tilonia)

Jal Jeevan Mission: Will piped water to every household no longer be a pipe dream?

There is a need to focus on the “first mile” i.e. communities across rural India to be able to ensure sustainability and scalability for piped water supply.