Project activities

Credit: WaterAid / Marco Betti

WaterAid India considers sustainable access to safe water and sanitation as a basic human right and works to achieve this through a variety of ways: 

• Prioritising the restoration of existing water sources before creating new ones.
• Ensuring women's access to water and sanitation is a key focus of programme delivery.
• Working with children so that they spread hygienic practices and serve as agents of change.
• Working in partnership with governments and civil society organisations to implement projects.
• Using an integrated approach to address water, sanitation, health and hygiene issues.

WaterAid India's main activities are:

Water

• Rehabilitation of defunct water sources
• Development of new sources in remote areas
• Community maintenance and sustainability of water sources
• Water quality and safety testing
• Recharging of water sources through appropriate rainwater conservation measures

Sanitation

• Triggering change in sanitation behaviour through community-led total sanitation approach
• Supporting partners to spend government funds appropriately
• Supporting sanitation in urban areas through child friendly toilets, community managed sanitation and washing/bathing complexes in urban slums

Hygiene

• Encouraging safe disposal of faeces, safe handling of drinking water and handwashing
• Creating a trained cadre for promoting hygiene (community based organisations, SHGs, Schools, Youths, Panchayats etc)
• Nominating children as ambassadors of change