Sanitation Solutions and Best Practices in India - India Water Portal

Sanitation (Health and Sanitation)

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

Child malnutrition Source: The Indian Express

The sanitation-child malnutrition nexus in India

02 Jan 2025

6 min read

The overall strategy of behaviour change must be open to and address barriers influenced by caste, gender and other local variables. (Source: India WASH Forum)

Addressing gendered disparities in water and sanitation

03 Oct 2024

4 min read

The importance of community-based solutions (Image: Pepsico India)

The ripple effect: How clean water is changing lives

05 Sep 2024

4 min read

From waste to wellness (Image: Healthfab)

From laundry to landfill

Sourav Chakrabarty

05 Sep 2024

3 min read

Greywater from kitchen and toilets (Image Source: IWP flickr photos)

AquaWISE - A decision support tool for greywater treatment solutions

Priyanka Jamwal

02 Sep 2024

4 min read

A rural toilet (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)

WASH facilities evade tribals

Prasanna Kumar Mudia

15 Jun 2024

4 min read

Sludge being used as a compost (Image: India Water Portal)

Sludge for food, food for thought

Girija Ramakrishna

06 Jun 2024

9 min read

Reports suggest that in India, only around 13% of girls are aware of menstruation before their first period (Image: Eco femme)

Innovative startups for a greener, period-positive future

24 May 2024

4 min read

A Baiga woman reacts as she collects water from a standpost installed outside her house in Pondi village in Dindori, Madhya Pradesh (Image: WaterAid India)

Water, sanitation, and women: A journey of empowerment in rural India

20 Mar 2024

3 min read

Empty faecal sludge drying bed (Image: Lars Schoebitz)

Faecal Sludge Management and sanitation in India-A tenuous link

Soomrit Chattopadhyay

08 Feb 2024

8 min read

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