parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. In reality, most basic observations indicate that … water supply coverage is not as good as the figures show while national sanitation continues to be poor even after almost … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity … sanitation reduces the risk of contracting diarrhea by 2.2 percentage points. There is considerable heterogeneity in the impacts … of improved sanitation. We neither fi nd statistically signi cant treatment effects for children in low or middle …

the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … coercion is correlated with variation in sanitation outcomes: in villages where more people report coercive SBM activities …