By WaterAid India My work took me back to Bihar in May this year. Coincidentally, it was during last May that I had visited Gaya and met with families badly affected by fluoride contamination. It was the turn of deadly arsenic this time. We were in a village in...
“Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.” – Victor Webster Editor’s Note, April 2019 All of us celebrated World...
Babu Raj J. Covers the Well with a Net to Protect Water from Dust and Insects (WaterAid/Ashima Narain) By WaterAid India Gangadharan, 48, enrolled his daughter, Anvitha, 10, in private school. He did not want to send her to the same primary school that he attended as...
By WaterAid India In one of my previous columns, I had shared about the fluorosis crisis which had been afflicting a village called Churaman Nagar in Gaya district of Bihar and how the entire system seemed to have failed them. There was a non-functional fluoride...
Puneet Srivastava is currently working as Manager-Policy at WaterAid India. Smart Water & Waste World interacted with him on various topics ranging from water scarcity, decentralized water governance, and water recharging, to the community’s role in...
