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Urban Water and Sanitation: Who cares about Poor?

Urban Water and Sanitation: Who cares about Poor?

The city development planning and judicious resource allocation in most of the cities in South Asian countries is a big challenge.  Among the basic amenities, water and sanitation remained the core concern that lead to health problems,…

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Added by K N Vajpai on March 23, 2011 at 13:05 — No Comments

How does it Matter to my Social values and Environmental Ethics?

How does it Matter to my Social values and Environmental Ethics?

You might have come across, as I, the ‘social values’ and ‘environmental ethics’, while your interaction with people in various organizations and institutions across development sector (d-sector)…

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Added by K N Vajpai on March 23, 2011 at 13:04 — No Comments

Lest our ideas are recognized

There are instances when we come through important and practicalthoughts and ideas in profession, while on other hand we come acrossgeneric statements as well.

I was going through a note from an important consultation approachpaper titled ‘Inputs from the Civil Society Consultations on RuralWater and Sanitation for the Approach Paper to Planning Commission’s12th Five Year Plan’, that lead me to read the document at http://bit.ly/i21ppX. The approach…

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Added by K N Vajpai on January 12, 2011 at 7:25 — 1 Comment

The Need of Devolution in Rural Drinking Water Supply Planning in India

In context to the development and devolution processes in India, year 2010 has been observed as ‘Year of Gram Sabha’ (Village Committee), in realizing the mandate of self-governance, transparent and accountable functioning of our Gram Panchayats (PRI).  Over a decade of constitutionally mandated Panchayati Raj (Village Governance) it had first time over one million women (in 2006) as elected representatives.



I will also take note from one of the very interesting studies carried out…

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Added by K N Vajpai on December 19, 2010 at 15:18 — No Comments

Harvesting WATER from Air

Far away from the old innovative world, and farther from the knowledge about what is being done and what has already been … the people of Sub- Saharan Africa often suffer from acute water shortage and remain forced to collect water from long distant streams, that too badly contaminated by animals, thus spoiling all their times for water, and very less time left for other activities … cannot even dream of development. A wonderful innovation, as media reports, pertaining to air-water harvesting… Continue

Added by K N Vajpai on November 15, 2010 at 14:00 — No Comments

Alarm Bells for Groundwater in INDIA

By Gopal Krishna 02 Apr 2010



India is the largest groundwater user in the world, but if current trends

continue, within 20 years 60 percent of all aquifers in India will be in

a critical condition.

Oblivious of government's own National Groundwater Recharge Master…

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Added by K N Vajpai on April 10, 2010 at 4:27 — No Comments

Hydrological madness runs deeper

By Sudhirendar Sharma 25 Mar 2010



With the world water day gone by and a hot summer in the waiting, the case of groundwater anarchy should be back into contention.



With such exploitation, can we save groundwater reserves from depletion?

That the country’s groundwater reserves have shrunk beyond redemption is no…

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Added by K N Vajpai on April 4, 2010 at 6:00 — No Comments

An Example of Unempirical Survey in 'Water Sanitation and Hygiene in India

ASHWAS an Example of Unscientific Survey

Link-1: http://arghyam.org/ASHWAS

Link-2: http://www.irc.nl/page/47116…

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Added by K N Vajpai on March 5, 2010 at 4:09 — No Comments

The mystery of the Indian village water-Wednesday 23 November 2005: http://www.irc.nl/page/26898

K.Indrani and Sanjay, the female and male supervisors of a local NGO, accompanied me to Chaukidar cluster in Padharapura in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Here, we met a 13-year-old girl Janglee and a boy, 7-year-old Kamal. Both are physically and mentally disabled, and could not even stand on their own for long. Janglee and Kamal cannot play with friends and they move around in acute pain in the…

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Added by K N Vajpai on March 5, 2010 at 3:58 — No Comments

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WSA signs up with Malaysian company for technical support on sanitation

Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indah Water for technical know-how and consultancy services in sewerage management in African countries. WSA selected the Malaysian company “to be in a technical committee formed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to propose immediate, medium- and long-term solutions for sanitation services in WSA member countries”.

Kiribati’s North Tarawa declared first open defecation free island in the Pacific

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North Tarawa in Kiribati is the first island in the Pacific to be declared open defecation free, thanks to the “Kiriwatsan I Project”. The Ministry of Public Works is implementing this project with technical support from UNICEF and funding from the European Union. In March 2013, North Tarawa adopted the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach following a training of trainers course conducted by Dr Kamal Kar.

Megan Richie is SNV's new WASH Director

In March 2013, SNV appointed Megan Richie as Managing Director for Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). She leads SNV's global initiatives in the WASH sector. Prior to her appointment as Managing Director, Ms Richie served as Country Director for SNV in Lao PDR.

Brian Arbogast new WASH Director at Gates Foundation

Brian Arbogast is the new director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He started work at the foundation on 13 May 2013. He takes over from Dr. Frank Rijsberman who acted as director until May 2012.

A central role for government in monitoring sustainable WASH services

Governments are not only investing more in national monitoring systems, but their leadership in country monitoring is also now generally accepted. With this acceptance, however, come expectations about good governance and transparency. Monitoring is politics: agendas and power influence what is monitored and how the results are used. National systems, too, go beyond WASH sector monitoring and should include data from donors and NGOs as well.

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