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Farm ponds, often touted as magic wands to tackle water scarcity, have raised a number of concerns (Image Source: Ninad Sargar)
Ninad K Sargar
6 min read
While farm ponds have often been depicted as magic wands to deal with water scarcity, experiences in Maharashtra show otherwise.
Women trudged long distances daily to fetch water for their basic household needs in Rupail (Image: People's Science Institute)
PSI addresses the shortage of safe drinking water in remote Uttarakhand villages through a participatory community-based approach to springshed management.
Community meetings in the slums of Dhenkanal under Project Nirmal (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)
Anju Dwivedi
5 min read
Project Nirmal demonstrates appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha.
As a part of Project Nirmal, community structures including Slum Sanitation Committees (SSCs) and Ward Sanitation Committees (WSCs) were constituted at the slum and ward level (Image: SCI-FI, CPR)
Community response to the slum sanitation improvement project hinges on grassroots leadership in a slum settlement in Dhenkanal.
A new planning framework focused on democratizing village water data collection is needed (Image: Snappy Goat from Pixabay)
James Wescoat
7 min read
Current rural water planning approach in India lacks important data considerations. Data is not mapped and prioritization is not transparent.
Decision-making on water is a multifaceted and cognitively overwhelming process (Image: Lolame, Pixabay)
Divya Sharma
7 min read
Are we wired to make bad decisions and how can a Decision Support Space (DSSpace) facilitate better decision-making about water systems in India?
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