The Water & Sanitation practice at Dalberg Advisors. Focused on WRM, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Waste Management, and Hygiene. Insights from our work globally.
Dalberg's 4th #WASH newsletter is out now! This time we're focussing on #Gender and WASH. Read it to find out more: https://t.co/1c3xq0pYFY If you enjoyed it use the link https://t.co/pQ6MTrbxnX to SUBSCRIBE for your copy today! #WASH#water#IWD2019#womenandwater
Low-grade manual sanitation work is poorly paid. #SanitationWorkers most likely do not have fixed wages and are often victims of extortion – some workers report getting paid in leftover or basic food items (Human Rights Watch 2014)
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Global Goalkeeper Award at tonight’s Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards. This award recognizes the progress India has made in providing safe sanitation under his leadership.
New brief: Is raising fish in recycled water a #sanitation solution?
More on wastewater-fed #aquaculture in Ghana, with partner @IWMI_
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-Bhakra #dam usually gets filled to capacity by Sept but for 1st time crossed permissible limits in Aug.
-BBMB official say water inflow into dam peaked at 3.11 lakh cusecs on Aug 19. Bfore this 3.18lakh cusecs was witnessed during 1988 floods in #Punjab. https://t.co/huxFzvvKW4
#ClimateChange has undeniably arrived, be it heat waves, super-cyclones, searing droughts and violent rain. Policies on development and water management are way behind the curve, writes
@businessline
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#Floods2019
��Since Fani, I’ve no money, food, water or shelter:” Sridhar Shetty, 45, landless Dalit worker, among 16 mn affected by Cyclone Fani in May 2019. In India’s cyclone-prone east coast villages, relief reaches worst-hit marginalised communities last. (link: https://t.co/NrXkPT5yoc)
The backbone for the success of water use efficiency initiatives through micro irrigation is, first and foremost, effective training and awareness generation amongst small and marginal farmers in potential states. https://t.co/3tBIgTxOS8
n a sudden U-turn, the Gujarat government has closed down all the gates atop the Narmada dam just 3 days after it opened 25 of the 31 gates to “ensure” that the reservoir waters do not rise above 131 metres so that dam oustees’ villages are not submerged https://t.co/u0eEQzNciS
Govt. plans law to manage 13 river basins (link: https://t.co/kUstLrHi1C) via
@timesofindia
Each of the 13 basins will have its own exclusive authority and master plan to take care of flood controls, water conservation & distribution and catchment area development ...
Water conservation: How Bundelkhand is keeping drought at a distance by recharging wells | India News, The Indian Express https://t.co/3FTqisIMoS via @IndianExpress