XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  Introduction   Clean water supply and proper sanitation are fundamental essentials that impact the overall health, hygiene, and life expectancy of people. Even after the criticality, ensuring society has access to these necessities still proves to be a challenge in many parts of the world. Access to safe and clean water has a cascading impact much further than just hygiene. Better hygiene ensures a reduction in poverty as the money currently spent on health issues can be rerouted to provide for jobs and thus creating a sustainable ecosystem. Nearly 33% of the world population (2.5 billion people) do not have access to adequate sanitation. Improper sanitation can lead to many diseases like diarrhea, especially in children, and nearly 1.7 billion children report diarrhea every year and it is the main reason for malnutrition among children below five years. Diarrhea is the second highest cause of the death of children below five years and a significant reason for diarrhea is th...

Introduction Our world has made a lot of progress in providing easy availability and access to water and sanitation facilities to billions of people in the world especially in the rural areas. Yet, they lack the basic facilities of sanitation and hygiene. According to recent statistics, about one-third of the people on the planet don’t have access to hygienic drinking water and about 67.3 crore people still defecate in open areas. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an eye-opener for the people in making them aware of the importance of hygiene and sanitation. Cleaning hands with soap and sanitizing it frequently increased the awareness among the population and helped billions of people around the world safeguard themselves from this virus borne disease. India has made significant development and is moving rapidly towards the goal of ending open defecation all across the country which in turn is improving the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). In 2015, about half the population of our...

  Authored by:- Animesh Acharya, Moidin Afsan, Soham Banerjee, Aviral, Tarun Agarwal, Shubham Sanganeria, Antony Paul Elenjical Introduction Clean water and sanitation is the sixth Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations and aims to secure adequate water and sanitation for all. Some of the main targets of this goal are to provide affordable drinking water, bring an end to open defecation and restore the quality of ecosystems dominated by water.[1] The primary means to achieve these goals are by supporting developing nations in their progress and ensuring that there is engagement from the local communities. We can see the global nature of these issues is the fact that over two billion individuals lack a way to get safe drinking water, and the number is over four billion when it comes to safe and hygienic sanitation. The Coronavirus pandemic has expedited the need to overcome these challenges.[2] At the same time, the fall in monetary reserves of global agencies due to the...