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While budgetary allocations and infrastructural growth show an upward trend for water and sanitation, there are loopholes in its functioning and effective implementation Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
The SDG financing gap will be history, when natural infrastructure (NI) enters the economics and financing computations. Read more...
Budget cuts could prevent the country becoming open defecation free by 2019. Read more...
On the global carbon market big companies like Coca-Cola reduce their carbon footprint by investing in safe water projects that reduce CO2 emissions. Read more...
Two years ago, I posted a blog summarizing discussions on whether insuring rural water supply systems is a good idea. But these remained largely theoretical discussions, as there are few examples of such insurances put in place. During field work for the Community Water Plus project in the State of... Read more...
Saraswati Halder, the president of the Durganagar Kanchantala water committee, shows me the committee's bank booklet. It shows only one transaction: 100 Rupees (about 1.50 US$) deposited in 2011, more than 3 years ago. Read more...
"Everyone forever" may be ahead of schedule in India, but where is the will to achieve it? Read more...
Sagar is an island at the mouth of the river Ganges where it meets the Bay of Bengal. Every year in January, about half a million pilgrims visit the island to worship at the holy Ganges. The hundreds of mobile toilet units standing on the empty festival terrain during the rest of the year are... Read more...
A model where public funds provide the back-end and private funds provide the front-end can fill the gap in sanitation financing in India, writes Anupam Tyagi from the International Management Institute in the Economic Times of February 9th, 2012. According to a recent report by Water and... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...