MDGs

The Network for Civil Societies on Water and Sanitation ( NEWSAN ) has called on government at all levels to take urgent steps to boost water and sanitation conditions in the country. NEWSAN is a Non-Governmental Organisation ( NGO ) and a ...

07/05/2012 - 13:49

I was in Delhi recently. It was great meeting people. There was much debate and discussion going on about sanitation and hygiene. These are much higher up the public agenda than before. And the new Minister, Jairam Ramesh, was spoken of highly by ...

03/04/2012 - 09:05

In India, virtually every second person is defecating in the open, every third person is drinking unsafe water and at least 1,000 children are dying every day due to a preventable disease like diarrhoea. This grim picture of the world’s third fastest ...

02/04/2012 - 10:08

Last week, India’s Minister for Sanitation, Jairam Ramesh announced the goal to make India an open defecation free nation in ten years. “There is a need for a social revolution to remove this blot from the society,” said Jairam Ramesh, according to a ...

29/03/2012 - 14:29

Going by the present pace of progress, India will achieve the millennium development goals ( MDG s) on sanitation only by 2054. While some States had already achieved the target and some are close to it, other populous States such as Madhya Pradesh ...

29/03/2012 - 11:09

The WHO /UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation has said that at its present pace, India would take time till 2054 to meet its MDG 2015 on sanitation. Source: The Indian Express, 28th March 2012 (Asia, ...

29/03/2012 - 11:04

According to the latest JMP report , India ranks first among the 12 countries which practise open defecation, followed by Indonesia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Nepal, China, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Cambodia. Unicef-India’s ...

29/03/2012 - 10:58

Though there has been a considerable improvement in sanitary conditions in India since 1990, the number of people defecating in open (626 million) is still enough to fill one-and-half football stadia every day. According to the recently-released WHO ...

29/03/2012 - 10:52

The 2012 update of the Joint Monitoring Programme’s Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation Report has been published. With regards to sanitation, the bad news is that although 1.8 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation since ...

21/03/2012 - 16:27

Bolivia En el segundo semestre de 2009, con el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua se acordó implementar un proyecto piloto para sistematizar y evaluar las condiciones de ...

20/01/2012 - 16:01