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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

Punjab, part of India's breadbasket is losing water fast, as water-guzzling crops like wheat and paddy continue to suck water at rapid rates.

From India to the USA: The growing water crisis in the breadbaskets of the world

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

09 Apr 2025

8 min read

Child malnutrition Source: The Indian Express

The sanitation-child malnutrition nexus in India

02 Jan 2025

6 min read

Children wash hands at a stand post installed in a Primary school at Kapoti Village in Karanjiya, Dhindori, Madhya Pradesh, India (Source: WaterAid India)

Rural Sanitation

Progress in WASH for India's tribal districts: A 2015-2020 analysis

23 Nov 2024

6 min read

Women and their unvoiced sanitation needs. Image for representation purposes only.

Urban Sanitation

Community led sanitation transforms women's lives

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

03 Nov 2024

5 min read

Children pose outside a toilet in India

Health and Sanitation

Swachh Bharat Mission helps reduce infant deaths in India: Study

Suman Chakrabarti

11 Oct 2024

3 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

Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector for Dengue (Source: James Gathany via Wikimedia Commons)

Open drains and garbage attract dengue spreading mosquitoes in Delhi slums

19 Aug 2024

4 min read

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