Kathmandu : The Centre for Urban and Infrastructure Development (CIUD) organized an Urban Dabali Talk on “Plastic Circular Economy for Sustainable Cities” on Friday, bringing together municipal officials, waste management practitioners, academics, civil society representatives, and students to explore practical solut...
Sewerage management has become one of the most serious environmental challenges facing today’s cities and human settlements. With rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization, and changes in lifestyle, the volume of wastewater generated on a daily basis is increasing at an alarming rate. In such a context, wastew...
Kathmandu: Mechinagar Municipality of Jhapa has decided to effectively implement the Fecal Sludge Management Act, 2082. A stakeholders’ meeting on fecal sludge management, chaired by Mayor Gopal Chandra Budhathoki, held extensive discussions on the matter. The meeting decided to form a five member Task Force compri...
When the roads around our homes are clean, wastewater is flowing, and garbage is collected on time, behind all of this lies the labor of sanitation workers who begin their work early every morning. This labor is as essential as it is risky. Sanitation workers are exposed daily to solid waste, sewage, chemicals, shar...
Kathmandu: Whether at home, school, office, or public toilet, one small yet extremely important structure is often overlooked in septic tanks the vent pipe. Many people assume, “The tank is built, the work is done.” However, this mindset can lead to serious health, safety, and structural problems in the future. As h...
Lalitpur : With technical and financial support from WaterAid Nepal and The Coca-Cola Foundation, the Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) has launched a new WASH project in Godawari Municipality to improve access to safe and reliable drinking water. The project, titled “Advancing Resilient WASH Access f...
Kathmandu: An interaction programme was held with sanitation workers on issues related to their rights, dignity, and safety. The interaction was organized among the Ministry of Water Supply, the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Management, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, WaterAid Nepal, Environment and Public Hea...
Sanitation does not only mean whether a household has a toilet or not. Real sanitation means that the entire sanitation value chain from the safe containment, transportation, treatment, and final disposal of human excreta after the toilet is used is properly and safely managed. In most cities of Nepal, data are avai...
Lalitpur: In Lalitpur Metropolitan City, very detailed (micro-level) sanitation-related data will be collected through a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) situation assessment survey. While previous studies were mostly limited to asking whether a household has a toilet or not and, if yes, what type of toilet it i...
Kathmandu: In recent years, incidents of sanitation workers losing their lives due to suffocation while cleaning septic tanks have been repeatedly reported from different parts of Nepal. Toxic gases accumulated inside septic tanks such as hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ammonia are extremely dangerous to human health....
