Governance
Data, a reusable asset
posted 3 months 2 weeks agoA quick search for the word data on India Water Portal results in a flood of queries - people are looking for water data - for specific villages, cities or for the entire country.

The women sanitation champions of Angul
posted 3 months 2 weeks agoSita Behera, the 35-year-old mother of two lives in the Radhamadhavapura unauthorised slum in Angul. She is the President of the Ward Sanitation Committee (WSC) that is leading the work on making the slum open defecation free. Driven by the desire to improve the living conditions for her children and the neighbourhood at large, she prompted 140 families to construct latrines over two years.

Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan a low impact, high expenditure scheme: CAG
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoJalyukt Shivar Abhiyan had a low impact in making Maharashtra drought free: CAG

Overexploitation of groundwater highest in Punjab: Government
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoPunjab no.1 in overexploitation of groundwater

Gendered impacts of COVID-19
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoCOVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the contemporary era demonstrating our fragility and has laid bare severe and systemic inequalities at all levels. It provides several lessons in the conduct of all aspects of human personality, professional, societal, and institutional lives globally.

MNREGA helps a village in Bihar become flood proof
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoHarpur Bochha is a village in Vidyapatinagar block of Samastipur district of Bihar. The village, which has a population of about 11.5 thousand people and 2349 houses, remained inundated with rain and floodwater throughout the year followed by waterlogging.

Decision Support Space: A concept
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoFriedrich Nietzsche famously wrote that he who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how'. A strong reason, motivation (why) and curiosity lead to actions that pave the path (how) to achieve any desired goal.

Improving city-wide sanitation service delivery in small towns of Odisha
posted 4 months agoTucked away in the slums of Dhenkanal, a small community offers a glimpse of how sanitation solutions have changed hundreds of lives for the better. Till recently, post rains in the absence of proper drainage, the clogged lanes were causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents of Parhatiya Sahi slum.

Sanitation empowered her
posted 4 months agoIn a corner of the Kathagada locality in the Parhatiya Sahi slum of Dhenkanal stands a small neat house. Surrounded by a well-tended garden that is planted with fruit trees, flowers and grass, this is Reena Rani Singh’s home. She is a multi-purpose local leader and is a member of the local Self Help Group (SHG), Mahila Arogya Samiti and Slum Sanitation Committee (SSC).

Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion
posted 4 months agoSince last week, people of Birjain village have been protesting against erosion by the river bank. They are demanding that the government should put in efforts to prevent river erosion and save their houses, otherwise they will continue with their Satyagrah and perform Jal Samadhi (suicide by drowning). Sattore, a flood-prone Panchayat has about 3000 houses.
