World Environment Day 2023: The Role Of Water, Hygiene And Sanitation In Building A Climate Resilient Tomorrow

Ahead of World Environment Day 2023, the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India team spoke with Naina Lal Kidwai, Chair, India Sanitation Coalition and Chair, Rothschild & Co India to explore the theme of Health For All and how it is impossible to achieve this goal if the environment around us is not healthy

 

New Delhi: The health of human beings depends on the health of the planet we live on – this is an established fact. The concept of ‘One Health’ recognises this interconnectedness between all people, animals, plants and their shared environment on planet Earth. Ahead of World Environment Day 2023, marked every year on June 5, the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India team spoke with Naina Lal Kidwai, Chair, India Sanitation Coalition and Chair, Rothschild & Co India to explore the theme of Health For All and how it is impossible to achieve this goal if the environment around us is not healthy. We also discussed the progress made under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to further our Sustainable Development Goals of health, hygiene, sanitation and the road ahead.

 

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Ms Kidwai has authored “Survive or Sink: An Action Agenda for Sanitation, Water, Pollution and Green Finance”, predating the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with the pandemic behind us, how far has India progressed on this agenda and what has been the impact of the pandemic on our goals? Ms Kidwai lauded the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to build an Open Defecation Free (ODF) India. She said,