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....
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...
