Pokhara : If you travel 2.3 kilometers from Zero Kilometer in Pokhara towards the Pokhara-Baglung Highway, you will reach the Baglung Bus Park. Aashika KC has been overseeing the public toilet at the bus park for the past 8 years. Aashika works as an employee at the public toilet operated by a cooperative organi...
HETAUDA : Within just five dhur (about two and a half aana) of land, houses, toilets, bathrooms, and water taps all stand together in the same small space. This is not the story of a single household — around 1,900 families in the settlement live in similar conditions. According to sanitation standards, toilets ...
Kathmandu : Five years ago, Mr. Badri Bikram Thapa from Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City Ward 4 had little knowledge about the challenges faced by people with disabilities. He would feel sympathy seeing people in wheelchairs but hadn’t imagined how difficult their daily life could be. And , after a vehicle accident le...
Bhaktapur: An Agreement of Cooperation (AOC) has been signed between the National Water Supply and Sanitation Research, Innovation and Capacity Development Center (NWSSRICDC) and the Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO). The agreement aims to foster collaboration in capacity development, knowledge manag...
Birgunj : Manisha Patel of Pokhariya Tol in Birgunj rushes to the well before cooking every morning. From the early-hour household chores and farm work to the children’s schooling, the family’s daily life depends on that well water. She used to believe, “Well water is clean, how could groundwater be contaminated?” ...
Dang: Since sanitation services have not been formally recognized by the government as part of public services, households are often forced to depend on the private sector or manage septic tank emptying themselves once tanks get full. However, residents of Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City in Dang need not worry. The ...
Dang: In Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City of Dang, the private sector is virtually prohibited from emptying septic tanks. The sub-metropolitan city has not granted permission to any private entrepreneurs for septic tank emptying so far, and those who secretly come from outside municipalities to do so are taken under c...
Kathmandu: Most of us consider household septic tanks merely a matter of sanitation and environmental health. However, the collective impact of these small septic tanks contributes to climate change by emitting greenhouse gases, particularly methane. In countries like Nepal, where traditional on-site sanitation ...
Dhangadhi: A massive integrated waste management center with fecal sludge treatment facilities is under construction in Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City. Spread over about 22 hectares, this processing center is being built under the Regional Urban Development Project with loan investment from the Asian Developmen...
What is Safe Sanitation? Safe sanitation refers to the process of managing sanitation at personal, household, and community levels in a health-friendly, environment-friendly, and sustainable way. Its goal is to safely manage human excreta, solid waste, and wastewater so that diseases do not spread, the environment i...
