Author: Madhu Thakar
Open defecation cannot be eliminated just by providing a hole in the ground with an oversized umbrella over it and christening it a ‘toilet’. There appears to be an unseemly hurry in building toilets all over the country without understanding the theory behind them.
Constructing toilets is a significant part of the overall Water,...
Arghyam, a grant making foundation working in water and sanitation in India, hosted a workshop on 27th January 2015 at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore to understand the interface between groundwater and sanitation in India. After a decade of work across the country, Arghyam has...
NGOs urge World Bank not to promote water privatization
The Bank has been funding a lot of such projects in South Asia. Even as they face a lot of problems, they are being...
Garudeshwar dam: for a statue or for people?
The dam in Gujarat's Bharuch district will act as downstream storage for the Sardar Sarovar project which means it can't be used for irrigation, flood control or...
Fresh water found on land has only two primary sources - melting of ice, and rain. Harvesting rain is crucial for sustaining both the surface and sub-soil water sources. That this has been well understood throughout rural India historically is evident from the...
In the world’s second most populous country with nearly 355 million menstruating women, 23% of...
One of the stated Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations is to improve access to...
