WaterAid | India - WaterAid (sitios de interés)

WaterAid | India

86% of people in India have safe water and only 33% have sanitation.

Working in India since 1986, WaterAid and its 50 partner organisations now work in ten states across the country.

Hygiene messages are promoted in rural areas through the mass-media and in schools. This also improves sanitation by creating a demand for latrines, vital in a country where 700 million people live without access to a toilet.

In urban areas WaterAid mediates between people living in unplanned settlements and water authorities to negotiate connections to the city's water supplies, as well as helping communities to establish communal, self-managed waterpoints and sanitation blocks.

By demonstrating cost effective, practical solutions and encouraging communities to establish their own water and sanitation self-help groups, WaterAid is able to influence policy decisions and has already successfully persuaded the Indian Government to change its sanitation subsidies to include low-cost latrines.

(c) WaterAid 2008