How the women of one Jharkhand village built their own bathrooms
The collective effort by all the women of Telleya has made it a model village in the entire Gumla district
Live storage in India’s reservoirs increases by 1%
India’s 143 major reservoirs had live storage of 147.631 BCM or 83% of these reservoirs’ total capacity
Jharkhand: West Singhbhum DMF must invest in improving health care services, says CSE
With more than Rs 370 crore in its kitty, West Singhbhum DMF Trust should prioritise reducing child mortality and improving nutrition for local people
Menstrual cycle is normal; our attitude towards it is not
Girls and women have to fight social norms as well as lack of access to safe adsorbents, bathing space and water to manage their menstrual cycles
Quest for water: Tribals in Gujarat village use traditional methods to end shortage
Some househoulds have started reusing grey water and maintaining kitchen gardens
75 years of people’s power: Telangana’s Ibrahimpur tackles grey water stagnation, mosquito breeding
Village is entirely dependent on groundwater for its potable and non-potable uses and this has helped make their water source sustainable
Union Budget 2019-20: Gush of funds for piped water
The government allocated Rs 9,150.36 crore for National Rural Drinking Water Programme — increase of 69% from last year
75 years of people’s power: These Maharashtra villages practice ‘best out of grey water’
Households are connected to the treatment system through a drainage network
Not even 1 in 5 Indian rural households gets piped water, govt tells Parliament
Jal Shakti ministry reiterates all village households will be supplied water by 2024
Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?
Non-profits and civil society organisations are increasingly opting for quick-fix solutions to all issues, a tendency that needs to be moderated
Modi’s rural sojourn: Take piped water to 4,620 households everyday
The challenge is to sustain supply; most habitations covered with drinking water have slipped back to non-covered status due to drying up of sources
Springs are flowing once again in these Uttarakhand villages, thanks to 'water champions'
After scientific interventions helped revive the dying springs in more than 300 villages, communities took the ownership of maintaining these …
Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply
Women can save time to find avenues of additional income
75 years of people’s power: Lalsot in Rajasthan is helping rural areas to treat their faecal sludge
This is an example of the informal use of urban facilities to treat rural faecal sludge
A success story: How we restored 15 rural waterbodies in UP’s Gautam Buddha Nagar
Depleted groundwater levels, deteriorated water quality, garbage and wastewater inflow, etc, were some of the issues faced by these rural waterbodies
How can we save rural India from COVID-19
Since most rural homes don’t have functional tap connections, they have to be built on a war footing
How a state mission brought clean water to every household in villages with supply crisis
The project exemplifies how methodical intervention can end supply problems even in hydro-geologically complex areas
Does rural India have enough water to sustain open-defecation free status?
While India is inching closer to being ODF, less than 20 per cent of rural households have piped water supply
Jharkhand: Water scarcity in Birsa Munda’s village exacerbates due to poor monsoon
Security personnel bring water in tankers to struggling villagers
This earthy flavour helps locals in Odisha fight adverse climate
Leafy greens like mutthi saag come in handy for poor people to meet their nutritional requirements
Water crisis not due to of lack of resource, but mismanagement: Union minister at CSE conference
The minister was speaking at the 2023 Policy and Practice Forum, an international gathering of water, wastewater and sanitation management …
Arsenic now in wheat, potato — and more than that in drinking water — in rural Bihar
Groundwater contaminated with arsenic is extensively used for irrigation and finds its way into the food chain
Injuries sustained while fetching water ‘hidden health challenge’: Study
Burden and risks associated with fetching water have been overlooked, says study authors
Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana — and are changing the way people can access this vital resource
Powered by solar energy, most water ATMs are designed to operate 24 hours a day
Groundwater in 12 Indian states found to be contaminated with uranium
Nearly 29%, or about 3 in every 10 wells tested in Punjab, is contaminated with uranium