WASH in Cities

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The world is rapidly urbanizing with billions of people living in cities in the Global South. High quality water, sanitation, and waste management services are critical to ensure health, human dignity, and economic growth. And yet, this is a crucial challenge as a high proportion of these urban residents do not have access to clean drinking water, safe sanitation, and waste management services. Furthermore, climate change is exacerbating the delivery of WASH services in urban areas across the world. Your hosts Nirat Bhatnagar & Shruti Goyal bring together leaders from philanthropy & funders, innovators, social entrepreneurs, researchers, & policy makers to discuss both problems and solutions within WASH in Cities.The WASH in Cities Podcast is produced by Dalberg Advisors.To know more, visit www.washincities.org

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Episode 5: Building thriving sanitation economies in LMICs

Aug 10 2023 32 mins

Amid the historical predominance of large-scale WASH infrastructure projects, the potential of “off-grid” sanitation solutions as a key component of robust sanitation economies has often been overlooked due to slower technological advancements and perceived investment challenges. However, this trajectory is gradually evolving, and the momentum towards scaling securely managed o

Episode 4: Planning for WASH in Cities

Feb 16 2022 50 mins

Water, sanitation, and waste management assets and services are critical to healthy cities. And yet, in many cases, the planning for WASH is not integrated into other urban planning functions leading to fragmented service delivery, suboptimal budgeting, poor monitoring of services, and adverse health and human outcomes for urban citizens.In this episode, we speak to Neelima Thota f

Episode 3: Employment in WASH

Dec 16 2021 35 mins

The water and sanitation (WASH) sector employs tens of millions of people in the Global South. However, most of this is through the informal sector, suffers from severe forms of prejudice and discrimination, and leads to significant health risks, economic deprivation, and social stigma, especially for sanitation workers. The perceived “informality” of this space leads to a lack

Episode 2: Business models: Faecal Sludge Management

Dec 16 2021 61 mins

Over the last few years, the importance of treating human faecal sludge has become increasingly clear. Human faecal matter has high-levels of pathogens and can drive significantly adverse health externalities if not treated and rendered harmless. In many countries in the Global South, dedicated FSM business models and technologies have been developed to address this problem of faec

Episode 1: Access to safe and affordable water in Indian cities

Dec 16 2021 45 mins

Historically, water delivery in cities has been planned through large centralized piped networks that run for kilometres and typically take water from a water treatment plant into different parts of the city. However, increasingly, there is recognition that this centralized model is not ideal for many situations: smaller cities or even pockets within larger cities. Over the last de

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The world is rapidly urbanizing with billions of people living in cities in the Global South. High quality water, sanitation, and waste management services are critical to ensure health, human dignity, and economic growth. And yet, this is a crucial challenge as a high proportion of these urban residents do not have access to clean drinking water, safe sanitation, and waste managem