Nepal
Context
Nepal lies between India and China, covering the Terai lowland plains and Mount Everest in the Himalayas.
Decade-long conflict has caused an increase in rural to urban migration. Rural areas are often remote from water supplies and a lack of sanitation in living environments is causing the spread of diseases.
Only 31% of Nepal has sanitation coverage, leading to widespread open defecation.
Approximately a third of all deaths in Nepal are of children under five, and half of these are due to diarrhoea.
Water supplies are often polluted and in some areas naturally occurring arsenic causes a contamination problem.
WaterAid's programme in Nepal:
WaterAid has worked in Nepal since 1986, working with seven partner organisations to provide safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene.
WaterAid's work with partner NEWAH has resulted in helping more than 3% of the rural population access these basic services.
Nepal country strategy 2010-2015
What has WaterAid achieved?
- WaterAid has helped over 800,000 people in Nepal through its water, sanitation and hygiene education projects.
- WaterAid contributed to 149 episodes of a radio discussion programme on water-related issues to raise public and policy-makers' awareness.
- WaterAid contributed to incorporating concerns of the urban poor in water and sanitation policy endorsed by the Government of Nepal in August 2009.
Price Points
- £17 could pay to train one sanitation mason
- £42 could pay to rehabilitate one tube well
- £292 could pay to construct a new dug well
- £308 could pay for one reservoir tank
Case study
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Shaili Tithung has lived in Kamrang in the Nepalese hills for 25 years. In 1992, WaterAid's main Nepalese partner, Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH), and a local NGO installed a new water scheme to the village, changing Shaili and her community's lives.
"During the dry season I used to have nightmares about water. All the time I had to worry about meeting my family's needs. In those days, I was unable to work in the farm because I had to concentrate on fetching water."
Since the drinking water scheme was constructed the situation has changed. It takes about two minutes to collect 20 litres of water and the water runs for 24 hours a day.
Films/ technology/ other links:
Eco Community in Nepal podcast
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Nepal Sources:
World Bank (2011) World Development Indicators database - databank.worldbank.org, WHO / UNICEF (2010) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report 2010, UNDP (2011), Human Development Report 2011 NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. There are not sufficient resources available for accurate monitoring of either population or coverage. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage.
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