How water insecurity affects women
1 year ago

How water insecurity affects women

The Hindu  

March 22, 2024 01:46 am | Updated 01:46 am IST While India has made remarkable progress in expanding household access to water, the National Sample Survey 78th round multiple indicator survey suggests that over 41% of rural households lack access to safely managed drinking water within their households, and geographical disparities in household access to safe water, though declining, continue to persist. We found that household access to safe drinking water enabled under the JJM reduces the time spent on collecting water from off-premises, leading to time gains among women, which they spent on better management of household tasks, children’s schooling, and childcare. Women who performed well on overall empowerment indicators also spent less time seeking water and showed a better mental health index. Beyond reporting on progress in terms of water access or quality, it is also imperative that we measure progress against intended gender goals – be it in terms of reduction in the drop-out rates among school-going girls or reduction in drudgery among rural women and the extent to which this translates to improved socio-economic outcomes for these women.

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PVTG Women Threaten Protest over Drinking Water Crisis
3 weeks, 6 days ago

PVTG Women Threaten Protest over Drinking Water Crisis

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Pedagaruvu village, located within Arla panchayat of Rolugunta mandal in Anakapalle district, is home to thirteen families comprising sixty individuals from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, the Kondu tribe. In frustration over the inaction of local authorities, the women have warned that if the water supply issue is not resolved within one week, they will stage a protest at …

Water must be at the centre of any efforts to uplift rural India
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Water must be at the centre of any efforts to uplift rural India

Live Mint  

India’s agrarian society is at a crucial juncture, seeking to balance traditional livelihoods with modern market dynamics. With more than half the country’s population depending directly or indirectly on agriculture, prosperity and economic growth in the rural sector becomes vital. Therefore, urgent policy refinements are needed to ensure people’s economic independence and a prosperous rural India. Incorporating water conservation strategies, …

2024 Lok Sabha polls | Do water woes affect voting choices of women?
11 months, 1 week ago

2024 Lok Sabha polls | Do water woes affect voting choices of women?

The Hindu  

Launching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election campaign for a record third term, BJP has pitched ‘Nari Shakti’ as the driving force of India. With over 14.21 crore households receiving tapped water as of January 31, 2024, the Centre aims to complete its target of 19 crore households soon, fulfilling a major campaign promise and alleviating one of the biggest struggles …

Urban Agenda | The whats, whys and hows of India's first city water management competition
1 year ago

Urban Agenda | The whats, whys and hows of India's first city water management competition

Hindustan Times  

Given how efficient water management is critical to over-populated, overheated, water-stressed urban areas, the Union government has initiated an ‘award and certification system’ to promote competition among states and cities to ensure water sources are well cared for, and citizens get access to clean drinking water. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June 2015 as an extension or a …

Source Sustainability a priority for drinking water supply in rural India
1 year, 9 months ago

Source Sustainability a priority for drinking water supply in rural India

Deccan Chronicle  

India is on a phenomenal trajectory to ensure access to safe drinking water for all its citizens. Ensuring sustainability of groundwater sources Regulatory measures and policy priorities on groundwater recharge- Prioritising source sustainability for drinking water is one of the essential priority. The nation-wide campaign “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain” focusing on saving and conserving rainwater with the theme …

India can avoid 400k deaths if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target: WHO report
1 year, 9 months ago

India can avoid 400k deaths if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target: WHO report

Hindustan Times  

India can potentially prevent nearly 400,000 deaths from diarrhoea and save about 14 million DALYs from water-related ailments if it manages to achieve universal rural coverage under the Jal Jeevan Mission, a World Health Organization report commissioned by the government has predicted. The WHO analysis focused on diarrhoeal diseases as they account for a majority of water and sanitation-related disease …

Piped potable water across India will avert 4,00,000 diarrhoea deaths, finds WHO
1 year, 9 months ago

Piped potable water across India will avert 4,00,000 diarrhoea deaths, finds WHO

The Hindu  

“Were the Centre’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission, a nearly ₹3.6 trillion enterprise to provide piped potable water to all of India, it would succeed in averting close to 4,00,000 deaths from diarrhoea, a modelling study by the World Health Organization and commissioned by the Jal Shakti Ministry,” reported on June 9. Additionally, this would avoid 14 million DALYS from diarrhoea, …

Water should essentially be part of the development goal - News18
2 years, 3 months ago

Water should essentially be part of the development goal - News18

News 18  

Water shortage is a serious issue that is being faced in several metropolitan cities in India. In India, the initiative by NITI Aayog of bringing out a Composite Water Management Index was a step in this direction wherein the relevance of a comprehensive and integrated national dataset for water was created; this may in the long run improve the performance …

Gajendra Shekhawat at Isha Insight 2022: At USD 210 Billion, India’s investment In Water Sector To Be Highest In The World By 2024:
2 years, 4 months ago

Gajendra Shekhawat at Isha Insight 2022: At USD 210 Billion, India’s investment In Water Sector To Be Highest In The World By 2024:

ABP News  

New Delhi: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Union Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, on Saturday said that India’s estimated investment in the water sector will be the highest in the world by 2024. @MoJSDoWRRDGR pic.twitter.com/Inpu0YdyxJ — Isha Leadership Academy November 26, 2022 Sadhguru appreciated the Mission's model of implementation and said, “I think the best part of the …

62% of rural households in India have fully functional tap water connections within their premises, says Water Resources Ministry report
2 years, 5 months ago

62% of rural households in India have fully functional tap water connections within their premises, says Water Resources Ministry report

The Hindu  

Around 62% of rural households in India had fully functional tap water connections within their premises, according to a survey commissioned by the Union Ministry of Water Resources to assess the functioning of the government’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission. Centre in June reported 52% rural households as having tap water connections Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Puducherry reported more …

The burden that women bear
2 years, 6 months ago

The burden that women bear

The Hindu  

On August 15, while houses hoisted flags, Malti rushed at the crack of dawn to the public tap 500 metres away before residents swarmed the place. Like Malti, 75% of women across India undertake such time-consuming efforts every day to ensure their families have water. For these women, freedom is relief from domestic drudgery, from doing repetitive tasks out of …

Reduce Food Intake, Check Water: This Isn't Health Story But Women in Assam Who Need Attention
2 years, 9 months ago

Reduce Food Intake, Check Water: This Isn't Health Story But Women in Assam Who Need Attention

News 18  

A new crisis has befallen the women in flood-hit Assam as many are reportedly refusing to have rice, the staple of the region, for fear of relieving themselves the morning after. The dearth of a clean and dry area to defecate have pushed several women in Assam’s Nagaon and Darang districts to reduce consumption of food and water by nearly …

Menstrual Hygiene Management: Why access to safe sanitation is vital
3 years, 2 months ago

Menstrual Hygiene Management: Why access to safe sanitation is vital

News 18  

Menstrual hygiene is important for the health of women and girls. Despite the massive success of the Central government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission programme in providing access to toilets, menstrual hygiene remains a major issue in some parts of the country, specifically in rural areas. Menstrual hygiene management needs the toilets to have facilities to change pads in privacy, availability …

Finding a way out of India’s deepening water stress
3 years, 4 months ago

Finding a way out of India’s deepening water stress

The Hindu  

The complexity and scale of the water crisis in India calls for a locus specific response, that can galvanise and integrate the ongoing work of different Ministries and Departments through new configurations. In urban areas, 50%-60% of the water supply is drawn from groundwater sources, whereas the remaining is sourced from surface water resources such as rivers, often located afar, …

In parched Andhra village, young women lead water-saving efforts
3 years, 7 months ago

In parched Andhra village, young women lead water-saving efforts

Live Mint  

Vyshnavi Kancharla is on a mission. The Class IX student of Zilla Parishad High School, the only educational institution in Andhra Pradesh’s Rajagopalapuram village in Chittoor district, wants to ensure that no girl child in her locality misses school owing to lack of water and menstrual hygiene facilities. Attending school was the last thing on our minds.” Things changed about …

The Indian women rappelling down a 60-foot well to find water
3 years, 7 months ago

The Indian women rappelling down a 60-foot well to find water

Al Jazeera  

During the summers, women in Maharashtra’s Nashik rappel down the well and spend hours waiting for water to seep into ditches at the bottom. For about five months of summer every year, women belonging to the Thakur caste, one of Maharashtra’s scheduled tribes that most people in the hamlet belong to, rappel down this well and spend hours waiting for …

Odisha’s Puri becomes first Indian city to achieve round-the-clock drinking water supply
3 years, 8 months ago

Odisha’s Puri becomes first Indian city to achieve round-the-clock drinking water supply

Firstpost  

Pilgrims will have access to 120 drinking water fountains all along the Grand Road and other hotspots, an official state government release said Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated the ‘Drink From Tap’ mission in Puri, making it “the first city in India” to achieve 24/7 quality drinking water supply, an official said. The initiative to provide …

To tackle the water crisis, women’s leadership in water management is crucial
4 years ago

To tackle the water crisis, women’s leadership in water management is crucial

Hindustan Times  

Water scarcity has been consistently considered as one of the top five risks by business leaders in the annual global risk report of the World Economic Forum. Women have been creating consistent ripples in India’s water security efforts — the time is right to leverage them as leaders of change. Women engage with the issue of water in different avatars …

4 crore rural households given water connections in last 1 and half years
4 years ago

4 crore rural households given water connections in last 1 and half years

Op India  

PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious scheme of providing piped water to every household in the country has started with a massive success, as it has exceeded its target so far since its launch in 2019. Out of 19.19 crore rural households in India, only 16.87% of households had tap water connections till August 15, 2019, since the time of independence. Concerned …

Rural women to help monitor tap water quality
4 years, 2 months ago

Rural women to help monitor tap water quality

Hindustan Times  

The Centre will train five women from each village to test the quality of water as part of the ambitious Jal Jeevan mission, which aims to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual tap connections by 2024 to all households in rural India, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in September 2019 …

HT Environment Conclave: Govt to train village women to test water quality
4 years, 2 months ago

HT Environment Conclave: Govt to train village women to test water quality

Hindustan Times  

The Union government will train five women from every village to test the quality of water at nominal charges as part of the ambitious Jal Jeevan mission, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on Friday, delivering the keynote address at the Hindustan Times Environment Conclave. The government will put up inexpensive water-quality testing infrastructure accessible to every village to achieve …

Piped Water Supply is Boosting Women's Health, Happiness and Income in Rural Zambia, Finds Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Piped Water Supply is Boosting Women's Health, Happiness and Income in Rural Zambia, Finds Study

News 18  

From growing vegetables to spending more time with their children, women’s quality of life improved drastically after piped water was installed near their homes in rural Zambia, Stanford University researchers said on Thursday. “Women and girls benefit the most from alleviation of domestic chores and from food production for nutrition and income generation,” said Barbara van Koppen, emeritus scientist at …

Women must be centre-stage in water and sanitation
4 years, 3 months ago

Women must be centre-stage in water and sanitation

Hindustan Times  

In May 2014, India was shaken by the rapes of two adolescent girls in rural northwest India, when they were out in the evening to defecate in an open field. In a recent study in the Indian Journal of Gender Studies on Women’s Experiences of Defecating in the Open, one respondent said: Some men would hide and watch us defecating …

Without clean water, fighting diseases is a pipe dream
5 years ago

Without clean water, fighting diseases is a pipe dream

Hindustan Times  

Today is World Water Day. Second, there’s an express need to invest more in water conservation efforts to ensure long-term availability of the resource, given its indiscriminate use and the larger context of the climate crisis. A 2017 World Bank report said about 160 million of the country’s 1.3 billion people don’t have access to clean water and that 21% …

World Bank says India halved its poverty rate since 1990s
5 years, 5 months ago

World Bank says India halved its poverty rate since 1990s

The Hindu  

India has halved its poverty rate since the 1990s, the World Bank said on October 15. Here are the key points made by the World Bank ahead of the annual meeting between it and the International Monetary Fund: Land will need to be used more productively in urban areas by the spatial transformation of cities achieving agglomeration economies and in …

‘Water Aunties’ Improve Rural Healthcare & Access to Potable Water
5 years, 6 months ago

‘Water Aunties’ Improve Rural Healthcare & Access to Potable Water

The Quint  

Talking to PTI on the sidelines of the World Water Week, she claimed people have reported better health, reduction in medical expenses, decline in children and elders falling sick and reduction in school absenteeism in areas where iJal stations were set up. “The field-validated water model offers a strong value proposition that can be leveraged to increase women's empowerment leading …

As India stares at water crisis, FM Sitharaman promises water to all rural households by 2024
5 years, 8 months ago

As India stares at water crisis, FM Sitharaman promises water to all rural households by 2024

India Today  

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the Jal Shakti Ministry will work with all states to provide water to all rural households by 2024 under the 'Jal Jeevan Mission.' Jal Shakti Ministry Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman: This new Ministry will look at the mgmt of our water resources & water supply in an integrated & holistic manner and …

Why India does not have enough water to drink
5 years, 9 months ago

Why India does not have enough water to drink

India Today  

About half of India is facing drinking water crisis with Chennai and Bengaluru bearing the brunt as monsoon got delayed and arrived without a brimming bucket. This kind of use has caused a reduction in groundwater levels in India by 61 per cent between 2007 and 2017, according to report by Central Ground Water Board, presented in the Lok Sabha …

Water crisis: Getting the priorities right
5 years, 9 months ago

Water crisis: Getting the priorities right

India Today  

In 2018, the Niti Aayog declared that India was staring at the worst water crisis in its history with 600 million people facing high-to-extreme water stress and about 200,000 people dying every year due to inadequate access to safe water. The Central Ground Water Board data shows water levels fell in 61 per cent of wells in the country between …

Uptick for India on sanitation in UN report
5 years, 9 months ago

Uptick for India on sanitation in UN report

The Hindu  

India has made great gains in providing basic sanitation facilities since the start of the millennium, accounting for almost two thirds of the 650 million people globally who stopped practising open defecation between 2000 and 2017. “India’s Swachh Bharat mission has been an example and inspiration to other countries, especially in Africa, but also East and South Asia,” said Mr. …

1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water – UNICEF, WHO
5 years, 9 months ago

1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water – UNICEF, WHO

India Today  

Billions of people around the world continue to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed to drink water services, 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic …

Trekking to natural water bodies deep in the jungles: How women in this village procure drinking water
6 years, 1 month ago

Trekking to natural water bodies deep in the jungles: How women in this village procure drinking water

Firstpost  

More than 16.3 crore people in India still don’t have access to clean water — the highest in the world. “The water that comes from the tap isn’t good, especially for drinking,” informed Suman Devi, “If you fill a container with it, the water immediately turns red and looks like blood, an indication of the soil in Manikpur.” “If anyone …

From emancipation to entrepreneurship, women in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district turn into beacon of light in patriarchal society
6 years, 3 months ago

From emancipation to entrepreneurship, women in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district turn into beacon of light in patriarchal society

Firstpost  

“I never imagined I would be in any official position leave alone be made the sarpanch of the panchayat. It has been a turning point in my life and for women in the village at Vakavli in Chiplun district,” said 62-year-old Lalita Babaji Sakpal, who was the sarpanch for five years. With the government making mandatory 50 percent reservation for …

Tackling India's water woes: Active citizenry, govt checks on unsustainable use and river pollution needed to address crisis
6 years, 8 months ago

Tackling India's water woes: Active citizenry, govt checks on unsustainable use and river pollution needed to address crisis

Firstpost  

Despite an abundance of rivers and lakes, India’s poor water management has not allowed it to harness their potential and maintain them to meet our needs. A paragraph in the report summed up the crisis: “It’s a matter of concern that 600 million people in India face high to extreme water stress in the country. Therefore, to address the water …

Bangladesh’s water crisis: A story of gender
7 years, 11 months ago

Bangladesh’s water crisis: A story of gender

Al Jazeera  

Climate change is driving an acute water crisis in coastal Bangladesh in which women are bearing most of the strain. “In the beginning, I couldn’t adjust here, but now I am getting habituated with the salty water.” The impact of the acute drinking water crisis in Bangladesh is borne disproportionately by women who, like Khadija, are the family members traditionally …

MP: Women set to manage water scheme affairs in Agar village
8 years, 6 months ago

MP: Women set to manage water scheme affairs in Agar village

Hindustan Times  

For long, women in rural areas across the country walked miles to bring home water. Women members of self-help groups at a meeting with Agar zilla panchayat chief executive officer in Chapariya village. The move came after members of different women’s self-help groups, led by Chandrakala Bai, met Agar district zilla panchayat chief executive officer Rajesh Shukla and tabled the …

In times of drought: Overuse of water behind India’s dry days
8 years, 11 months ago

In times of drought: Overuse of water behind India’s dry days

Hindustan Times  

Drought-hit Denganmal in Maharashtra, one of India’s driest places, has of late caught the attention of sociologists, rather than policymakers. Urban demand is currently 135 litres per person per day, three times as much as rural India’s 40 litres, excluding farm use. India’s per capita availability of usable fresh water is about 1,123 cubic metres, down from about 4,000 cubic …

Water crisis affects livelihood in Garla
8 years, 11 months ago

Water crisis affects livelihood in Garla

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: Summer is the most stressful season for the housewives of Bhukyathanda under Garla mandal. The major complaint of these women is that their earnings are being hit as they are not able to go out to work due to the water crisis. Most women used to go to work under the NREGS but now, they are unable to go …

India has world's highest number of people with no access to safe water, claims report
9 years ago

India has world's highest number of people with no access to safe water, claims report

Firstpost  

India has the highest number of people in the world without access to safe water supply, followed by China and Nigeria, a WaterAid report Kochi: India has the highest number of people – 76 million – in the world without access to safe water supply, followed by China and Nigeria, a WaterAid report said on Tuesday. The report placed India …

Urban-rural divide over sanitation, drinking water declining: U.N.
10 years, 10 months ago

Urban-rural divide over sanitation, drinking water declining: U.N.

Firstpost  

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation released Thursday, urban areas where more than half of the global population lives are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones. The report, produced by the World Health Organisation and Unicef, noted that in 1990 more than …

UN report rings alarm on water scarcity in India
12 years, 1 month ago

UN report rings alarm on water scarcity in India

The Hindu  

India needs to formulate new indices to measure available water resources as the calculations per capita water availability do not include disparity in water allocation and access. The lack of water availability and poor management practices have also manifested in poor sanitation facilities, one among the biggest environmental and social challenges India faces today. The concept of inter-State virtual water …

Not vegetarianism or dieting, Mr. Modi
12 years, 6 months ago

Not vegetarianism or dieting, Mr. Modi

The Hindu  

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s remark in an interview to Wall Street Journal that high malnutrition persists in his State because Gujaratis are mostly vegetarian and are middle class, and more conscious about their looks and putting on weight than their health, created a furore. About 89 per cent of men workers and 98 per cent of women workers in …

No room for development
12 years, 11 months ago

No room for development

The Hindu  

The housing and houselisting census data do not paint a rosy picture of India in terms of basic amenities for its households. The census data show that some 87 per cent of households used tap, tube well, handpump or covered well water. As many as 36 per cent of households fetched water from a source located within 500 metres in …

India cautioned over river pollution
15 years ago

India cautioned over river pollution

The Hindu  

River pollution would remain a burden for the rural people of India for quite sometime, as the pollution is man-made, said Chief of Water and Environmental Sanitation of UNICEF, Lizette Burgers, here on Monday. Speaking during a workshop on adaptive strategies for Water Conservation and Water Quality challenges as part of the celebrations to mark the World Water Day, Ms. …

Towards sustainable water management
15 years, 2 months ago

Towards sustainable water management

The Hindu  

The 2030 Water Resources Group is a consortium of private-social sector organisations formed in 2008 to provide insights into emerging world-wide water issues. For India, the annual demand is expected to increase to almost 1,500 cubic km, against a projected availability of 744 cubic km; a deficit of 50 per cent. Conservatively, if we assume that India may harness 15 …

The state and water rights
21 years, 5 months ago

The state and water rights

The Hindu  

THE per capita availability of water in India has dropped from 5,000 cubic metres a year in 1947 to less than 2,000 cubic metres in 2002. While tracing the government's role in providing water to its people, the Ahmedabad-based water and gender expert Dr. Sara Ahmed says that the 1944 Bhore Committee, which looked into the country's health system, first …

A water crisis ahead
26 years, 10 months ago

A water crisis ahead

The Hindu  

India is on the threshold of a water crisis, warns a report prepared by the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Wide Fund for Nature. THE spectre of a freshwater crisis that can lead to millions of people being denied access to safe water supply looms over India, according to a report prepared jointly by the United Nations Children's …

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