Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Mudikuwa VDC of Parbat District, Nepal

Abstract

Drinking water and sanitation facility are the basic needs of human beings.Development of this sector will have positive impact upon consumers' health, andwill produce healthy manpower, which would contribute to the growth of otherproductive sectors and activities of the country. Safe drinking water willsignificantly control water borne diseases and on the other hand it subsrantiallyminimizes health expenses to be incurred on treatment of such diseases. Apartfrom this, the time saved from fetching water could be utilized in productiveworks, which in turn, provide opportunity to earn more income to the generalpublic. Development of drinking water sector contributes to production of healthymanpower, additional income generation andless health expenditure on treatmentof disease. According to the drinking water facility index in the study area 27%, 22%, 36%and 15% of the people are using 1 st , 2 nd , 3 iii rd , and 4 th grade of water respectively.Since first and second grade are considered to be of sufficient drinking waterfacility. 49% of the people are using drinking water facility and 51% are deprivedof the facility Out of 36 sources, there are 32 natural spouts in the VDC, these sources arelocated within the distance of one kilometer. According within the distance of onekilometer. According to wardwise location of the sources there are 8 sources inward no 5 and 1 each in ward no 1 and 2. According to quality of water, onepercentage of the people are drinking water from well. Which is of 4 grade.Finally 64% of the sources are secured and 36% are acceptable. So, drinking waterfacility can be considered to be satisfactory in this VDC. Cent percent of the people have been using drinking water from different sources.At present 985 of the people are using water from pipe system water supply and th water from traditional well and natural spout are being used by 1% each of thepeople respectively. Due to the lack of proper repair and maintenance of completed projects, manyprojects are completely non-operational. Consumer groups are unwilling to takeone the ownership of the completed projects since they are not involved in theimplementation phase. The monitoring and evaluation of drinking water supplyand sanitation programs projects are ineffective. Local self-government, manual -2056, article-65 has directed to carry outvarious village development projects in each and every village developmentcommittee that can furnish the villages with co-operative, effective, well-managedand long-term returns. In this concern, the responsibility of the VDCs will be toavail the villagers with pure sufficient and prolonged drinking water and sanitationfacility. In order to achieve the mission, "Pure Drinking-Water and SanitationScheme" deemed necessary. Therefore, the purposes for preparing this thesis are: a. To access the available facility of drinking water.b. To manipulate previously established projects.c. To identify the areas and the people those are deprived of the facility of drinking water and sanitation.d. To settle the base of priority for the projects to be established in future.