Sanitation is directly linked to human health, environmental protection, and a dignified life. Without access to safe toilets, neither a healthy community can be built nor can water sources be protected. In this context, for a geographically diverse country like Nepal, onsite sanitation has increasingly been establi...
Kathmandu: Managing wastewater safely in cities and settlements has become one of today’s major challenges. At a time when centralized sewerage systems are becoming increasingly expensive, complex, and costly to operate in the long run, the Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System (DEWATS) is being adopted worldwide a...
Kathmandu: Dr. D.P. Chapagain, Executive Director of the Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board, has stated that centralized sewerage systems are extremely expensive and unsustainable in the long term for a country like Nepal. At the knowledge sharing and learning exchange program of the “Dukuchhap Sustainab...
Ghorahi: An agreement has been signed between the Water Supply and Sewerage Management Office (WSSMO), Nepalgunj, and Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City to ensure the regular operation and maintenance of the Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) project being implemented in Ghorahi. The agreement was facilitated during a monitor...
Kathmandu: Sanitation is not an issue limited only to toilet construction. The goal of safe sanitation cannot be achieved unless the entire sanitation chain collection, transportation, treatment, and safe disposal or reuse of human excreta is completed. However, in reality, many local governments have not been able ...
Kathmandu : The National Water Supply and Sanitation, Research, Innovation and Capacity Development Center (NWSSRICDC), in collaboration with UN-Habitat and the Gates Foundation, is advancing a series of capacity-building initiatives under the “Scaling Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Service Systems (Nepal)” project....
Kathmandu : A two-day Workshop on Safeguarding has been started today in Kathmandu, organized by Start Network Nepal which is working on disaster response since 2021 AD in Nepal. Major objective of the workshop is to strengthening organizational safeguarding systems, practices and accountability mechanisms related to...
The International Water Association’s 2025 Water and Development Congress & Exhibition was successfully held in Bangkok, Thailand from 8 to 12 December, bringing together water professionals and other key actors, from researchers through to government officials, to advance solutions for low- and middle-income cou...
Rautahat: In Ward No. 5 of Rajpur Municipality, Rautahat, handpumps that had never dried up before completely ran dry during this year’s dry season. The village faced an acute drinking water crisis. In the same area, continuous rainfall for three days in the month of Ashoj caused flooding. Due to inu...
Kathmandu: On the final day of the ongoing Water & Development Congress and Exhibition 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, a significant workshop titled “Come Together: The Challenges of an Alliance on Safe Sanitation” was successfully concluded today. Organized by the Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Alliance Nepal (CWISAN...
