Dambar Kumari Pulami – 69, Tosramkhola VDC, Sindhuli District Nepal: “My grand children's future will be much better as the clean water is accessible near home. They will not have hard life like us. Now they know lots of things about sanitation and hygiene. I can also tell them to wash hands before eating and after playing. The new generation is also very quick to grasp and understand these issues.” WaterAid/ Mani Karmacharya, February 2013
Ghyachok School Health Education and Sanitation Project in ward 4, 7 and 9 of Ghyachok VDC in Gorkha District was completed two years ago. Around five hundred pupils were benefited from the project in three schools two primary schools namely Dewalswanra and Mahadevsthan and a Dhansira high school. All the schools have separate toilets for girls and boys and access to safe drinking water. Ghyachok VDC is known as first ever village having universal WASH coverage in Nepal.
The film where WaterAid is calling for everyone has access to clean water and safe place to go to the toilet. Watch the short film on why the next set of global development goals should ensure that no one goes without these basic necessities. This film was first shown in Monrovia, Liberia to members of the High Level Panel of eminent persons advising the UN Secretary General on the framework for the Post 2015 process.
सोलार प्रविधिबाट खानेपानी आयोजना सञ्चालन
९ माघ, इलाम । इलामको बाँझो गाविस वडा नम्बर ६ को रक्से बजारमा जिल्लामै पहिलोपटक सोलार पम्पिङबाट खानेपानी आयोजना सञ्चालन भएको छ । अग्लो डाँडामा रहेको रक्से बजारलाई लक्षित गरेर सोलार पम्पिङ सञ्चालन गरिएको हो । यसअघि त्यहाँका बासिन्दालाई करिब पाँच किलोमिटर टाढा रहेको साकफाराबाट ल्याएको पानीले जीवनयापन गर्नुपर्दा ज्यादै समस्या भएको थियो, उपभोक्ता समितिका सदस्य किरण राईले भन्नुभयो ‘सोलारबाट पानी तान्न थालेपछि स्थानीय बासिन्दालाई राहत मिलेको छ ।’
Press release – 22 March 2012
KATHMANDU: WaterAid is marking Nepal National Water Week 2012 by supporting The World Walks for Water and Sanitation global campaign. Walks are taking place in fourteen districts in the country, with 8,000 people walking country-wide and over 300,000 globally.
The campaign is running ahead of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership high level meeting, on 20th of April 2012, bringing together Government Ministers from around the world. WaterAid will be calling on them to act with urgency to end the water and sanitation crisis.
An art competition is being organised by Federation of Drinking Water and Sanitation Users Nepal (FEDWASUN) in Makwanpur district today. Tomorrow (23 March) the Nepal Academy of Science & Technology (NAST) is organising a walk in Kathmandu. This will be followed by a seminar on water and food security at NAST Auditorium in Lalitpur, where papers on water and food security will be presented by academicians and experts. (more…)
Across Nepal various initiatives are taking place, from walks for water and sanitation, rallies, interactions, seminar and media activities on this World Water Day. All of this will help to support to the Sanitation and Water for All high level meeting in Washington on 20 April.
Nepal is also marking “The World Walks for Water and Sanitation” global campaign, which kicked off on 17 March and has currently over 340,000 people registered! Walks are happening in fourteen districts namely Chitwan (25 March), Makwanpur (22 March), Gorkha (21 March), Doti (22 March), Baglung (22 March), Dolakha (22 March), Siraha (22 March), Bardiya (22 March), Khotang (22 March), Pyuthan (22 March), Mugu (22 March), Dhading (25 March), Ilam (23 March) and including Kathmandu (23 March), the capital of Nepal. Around 8,000 people will be walking countrywide. The walks in the thirteen districts are organising by Federation of Drinking Water and Sanitation Users Nepal (FEDWASUN). The walks will be followed by interactions in the district headquarters. Art competition will also be organised in the Makwanpur district which FEDWASUN district branch is leading.
In the capital Kathmandu, Nepal Academy of Science & Technology (NAST) is organising the walk which will be followed by the seminar on water and food security at NAST Auditorium in Lalitpur on Friday the 23 March. Water and food security related seven papers will be presented by academicians and experts in the seminar.
The walks, interactions and the seminar are organised in coordination with WaterAid in Nepal. (more…)
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