Karnali villages are emptying as water sources dry up

Of 366,370 households in the province, only 130,000 have reliable access to drinking water.

Nanda Jaisi, an 80-year-old woman from Rekcha in ward 5 of Chaukune Rural Municipality in Surkhet, has a family of ten. But despite the big family size, the Jaisis get only two buckets of water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, and other daily necessities.