Preparations Underway For The Launch Of India’s First Music Album On Hygiene

Rais Khan Project has composed folk songs for Dettol Banega Swasth India campaign, as part of India's first music album on hygiene

Meet 57-Year-Old WASH Warrior From Trichy Who Built Over 6 Lakh Toilets In Last 35 Years, Awarded With Padma Shri 2022

57-year-old S. Damodaran, Founder, Gramalya Sanitation NGO, has been conferred the Padma Shri Award 2022 for his work on sanitation in villages and urban slums across...

How Improving Access To Water And Hygiene Facilities Can Help Break The Gender Bias

Women suffer the worst due to the lack of water and sanitation facilities as they are traditionally responsible for managing water, food and sanitation requirements of...

Break The Gender Bias: Indian Women Spend 15 Crore Workdays A Year Fetching Water, An Economic Loss Of Rs.100 Crore

In rural areas and urban slums, women and girls have primary responsibility for managing household water supply, the lack of which impacts their health, sanitation and...

Opinion: Individual Household Toilets Are Essential In Reducing Exposure To Covid And Gender Based Violence

For the urban poor in India, a section that depends upon shared toilets, the risk of contracting Covid is much higher, say experts

COVID-19 Has Increased The Burden Of Medical Waste Significantly, Says World Health Organisation

Dr. Margaret Montgomery, WHO’s WASH Technical Officer explains how medical waste can impact health

Economic Survey 2022 On Health, Hygiene, Sanitation And Climate Change

The Economic survey 2022 tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about the achievements of India’s healthcare and social sectors

Recap 2021: Health, Hygiene And Sanitation In Focus In The Second Year Of The Covid-19 Pandemic

Here is a recap of the progress made and learnings from 2021 in the sphere of public health & hygiene

Sanitation Workers, The Essential Yet Neglected Workforce

Sanitation workers help in the management of different stages of sanitary waste management

World Toilet Day: "Who Cares About Toilets? 3.6 Billion People Do," Says UN Water

This is what sanitation experts, organisations and government agencies said on Twitter to raise awareness about the importance of sanitation on World Toilet Day 2021

World Toilet Day 2021: What Is Sustainable Sanitation?

Safe and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services can contribute to the mitigation and adaptation for climate change, say experts

Implementation Of SDGs Needs Efforts Of Society As A Whole: India's Permanent Representative To UN

India's Permanent Representative to United Nations TS Tirumurti talked about India's SDG initiatives and said that the Programmes are aimed at universal access to housing, sanitation,...

Cleanliness Survey For Villages Across India To Be Launched On September 9

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation had commissioned the ‘Swachh Survekshan Grameen’ in 2018 and 2019

Unsafe Sanitation Driver Of Enormous Public Health Costs: Experts

According to Neeraj Jain, Country Director, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), India, there is a need to look at preventive and curative measures, where...

Jal Shakti Ministry Launches 100-Day Campaign To Create More Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus Villages

According to the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the aim of the 100-day campaign is to create more ODF plus villages by undertaking waste water management at...