Sanitation Solutions and Best Practices in India - India Water Portal

Sanitation (Health and Sanitation)

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

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

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