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SANITATION Sanitation remains one of the biggest unaddressed development challenges in India. Despite significant improvements in recent years, at least 40 per cent of the population (and possibly many more) do not yet have access to adequate sanitation. Sanitation is a complex problem that has interrelated implications for human health, environmental health, and water quality. Inadequate sanitation is a root cause of human and ecological degradation. Inadequate sanitation leads to pollution of water bodies, which poses a significant public health and environmental problem. Yet research seldom focuses on the legal and policy aspects of inadequate sanitation, per se. Instead, sanitation is often treated as an afterthought. ELRS seeks to fill this gap by developing legal and policy frameworks for the right to sanitation in India.

Ongoing Research

Right to Sanitation Rural Sanitation Legal and Policy Aspects Legal Framework relating to Wastewater Disposal (and Reuse) Review of legislation and High Court decisions concerning sanitation

Workshops/Consultations Events

ELRS organised a national workshop From Water to Sanitation and Beyond Legal, Institutional and Policy Dimensions of the Right to Water and Sanitation in New Delhi on 27-28 July 2012. The issues discussed included national dimensions of the right to sanitation, rural and urban sanitation, as well as environmental, social (gender and sanitation workers), and public health dimensions. [read more] ELRS organised a National Consultation on Water and Sanitation: Law and Policy Reforms in India in New Delhi on 6-7 January 2012. [read more] ELRS staff members contributed to the workshop on Right to Sanitation Lessons from India held in Geneva on 27-28 January 2011. The workshop was organised by the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), Geneva with the support of the Law, Environment and Development Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (SOAS). [read more]

Potential Areas for Research ELRS has identified the following areas for future research:

Institutional and regulatory framework for water quality control as a result of discharge of municipal sewage

Please do contact us if you wish to partner with us for any of these research projects.

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