Dr Amita Bhakta
@amita_bhakta
Visiting Scholar @UCL. WASH consultant. Rights, infrastructure, labour and urban planning. Co-Lead #LeaveNoOneBehind theme @RuralWaterNet. Indian. She/Her.
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📝 Submit your abstract for the 4th Sanitation Workers Research Awards at the 2024 UNC Water & Health Conference
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#WASHmatters
Very excited to be joining this workshop today with Sally Cawood Mayur Mary James Gill today Lancaster Environment Centre !
1/2 From people covering their noses as they pass by to the reluctance to exchange money directly for fear of hand contact, #WeSpeakTooBhopal panellists candidly address insensitive actions that deeply affect them.
youtu.be/gLS3w1gXBa4
Pinning my colours to the mast for #MumbaiIndians this #IPL2024 , may the best team win zenrainman Meera Mehta :-)
This #WorldWaterDay2024 we should recognise the important link between water, sanitation, and menstrual health. My paper with Aasim Mansuri Jigisha Jaiswal
mona_iyer highlights the need for water in shared urban toilets in India for menstrual health:
iwaponline.com/washdev/articl…
It was an absolute pleasure to be back Loughborough Geography and Environment yesterday to deliver a seminar, 'Hidden geographies: a critical perspective from sanitation services in the global South'.
You can read more about the event here:
amita-bhakta-hidden-wash.net/seminar-on-hid…
Flying around campus and lectures/meetings at the moment (!) but so lovely to see Dr Amita Bhakta today. Good to catch up my friend!
Happening today! Looking forward to talking all things hidden geographies and sanitation this lunchtime Loughborough Geography and Environment !
*New paper*! It is with great pride that I share our brand new journal paper, ‘The need of the hour: Providing water in shared toilet facilities for menstrual hygiene management in urban India’ written with Aasim Mansuri Jigisha Jaiswal mona_iyer
iwaponline.com/washdev/articl…
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