Waterborne Democracy for Rural India
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
India’s first and largest waste-picker cooperative has inspired community-wide recycling and sustainable living.
Jibu franchises make clean drinking water affordable for Africa’s booming urban populations and provide economic opportunity to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Water, sanitation, and hygiene projects are not just for low-income countries overseas. They are also desperately needed at home. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
The biggest obstacle to eradicating India’s sanitation problem is a social tradition based in its caste system. A Field Report from the Spring 2020 issue.
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
Carbon for Water is engaged in a loopy funding scheme and offers a lousy public health solution.
Sewage treatment systems are being built that are simpler and less expensive.
The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.
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