Locals in Salyan start collecting rain water

Locals of Kupindedaha and Nigalchula in Salyan have initiated a campaign to collect rain water as an alternative source of drinking water, due to acute shortage of water.

The compulsion to walk five hours distance a day to fetch drinking water has been ended with the feasibility of collecting rain water as an alternative source through the use of bio-gas, locals said.

At the present, 40 households and students of two local schools have started the campaign to collect rain water as a reliable source of drinking water.

Under the campaign, the construction of 40 wells for community people and three wells for two schools and a sub health post has been in the final stage
. Programme coordinator of the organization Kalpana Sejwal said," there is big crisis of drinking water in Kupindedaha and Bigalchula and the new alternative is adopted to manage drinking water."