The current mismanagement of the waste and our nonchalant attitude has started raising serious health and sanitation issues like weaker immune systems, breathing problems, bacterial infections, elevated cardiovascular risk, and other infections. Breeding of mosquitoes has become easier and vector borne diseases like dengue and malaria have become rampant. Moreover, the decomposition of organic waste […]
Category: water, sanitation and waste management
Overlooked Realities of Maharashtra and Odisha
Authors – Debayani Panja (Research Associate, CIRC) and Konica Sehgal (Intern, CIRC) Every person has a right to potable water. Insufficient water infrastructure has indirect linkage to productivity of men and women, leading to health problems, out-of-pocket medical expenditures and loss of employment days. This affects overall growth of a society. In India, water is a […]
Evaluating water perspectives in 4 Indian states (PART 4)
( This is a report evaluating the water and related concerns in 4 states of India – Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan. Every week a part of the report will be published.) Author : Konica Sehgal Role of Public Private Partnership and how can it help A partnership between public and private sectors helps the […]
Evaluating water perspectives in 4 Indian states (PART 2)
( This is a report evaluating the water and related concerns in 4 states of India – Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan. Every week a part of the report will be published.) Author : Konica Sehgal Effects of bad quality water to other areas Apart from water coverage, bad quality water also affects the population […]
Evaluating water perspectives in 4 Indian states (PART 1)
( This is a report evaluating the water and related concerns in 4 states of India – Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan. Every week a part of the report will be published. Introduction of the report has been provided in this post.) Author : Konica Sehgal Introduction Rural India is home to about 67% of the […]
Evaluating water perspectives in 4 Indian states (ABSTRACT)
( This is a report evaluating the water and related concerns in 4 states of India – Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan. Every week a part of the report will be published. Abstract and contents of the entire report has been provided in this post.) Author : Konica Sehgal ABSTRACT India is designated as a […]