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Meeting Kenyan Girls’ Thirst for Groundwater Knowledge Through ‘Water Clubs’

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Meeting Kenyan Girls’ Thirst for Groundwater Knowledge Through ‘Water Clubs’

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Red dye spreading through a model ‘aquifer’ helps girls from Kingwede School in Kwale County, Kenya understand how pollutants travel in groundwater. The ...

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A Rainy Day & Asia’s Largest Illegal Colony - Illegal Water Flows

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A Rainy Day & Asia’s Largest Illegal Colony - Illegal Water Flows

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Sangam Vihar, Asia’s largest illegal colony with a few lakhs population which is largely dependent on private water tankers and local water vendors for their ...

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My First Month in Odisha

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My First Month in Odisha

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It has now been a month since I arrived in Odisha, India to work with Gram Vikas on a new AguaClara project. By the end of August, the village of Lahanda will ...

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A Tale of an Unequal City: Delhi’s Waters Through the Eyes of Women Working as Domestic Workers

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A Tale of an Unequal City:  Delhi’s Waters Through the Eyes of Women Working as Domestic Workers

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This blog post is a collaboration between Anjali – Rachana – Rajni – Sharda – Sonia – Tatiana. In Delhi, as in various cities of India and the Global South, ...

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World's Biggest Eco-toilet Scheme Fail

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World's Biggest Eco-toilet Scheme Fail

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I always wonder why some of the best schemes fail? Why, despite huge amounts of money spent in the water and sanitation sector, the Sustainable Development ...

Academic Sanitation Water & Sanitation Waterless Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation and Hygiene Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

Quantifying Gender & Sex Inequities In WASH

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Quantifying Gender & Sex Inequities In WASH

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) acknowledge that women and girls have unique WASH-related circumstances. Data and indicators are critical for ...

Social Gender Equality Sanitation Data Management Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Data Analysis Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Climate Change: A Threat and an Opportunity for WASH

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Climate Change: A Threat and an Opportunity for WASH

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Climate change and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are inseparable. The persistent separation of climate policy making and WASH service delivery, ...

Academic Sanitation Climate Change Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation & Hygiene Sanitation Awareness Climate Change Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Climate

Hurricanes, Health, and Safe Water

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Hurricanes, Health, and Safe Water

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For many of us, turning on the faucet for a drink of water or a shower is just a routine part of an average day.  Usually, we don’t have to think twice about ...

Social Public Health Ecological Sanitation Purification Governance Desalination Reverse Osmosis Human Rights Water & Sanitation Sanitation & Hygiene Water Supply Sanitation & Hygiene Governance & Planning

Sustainable WASH – Lessons from Mali

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Sustainable WASH – Lessons from Mali

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In the past four years, Mali has gone from peace to crisis, and violence and disruption have undone hard-won progress in WASH and development. Between 1992 ...

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