Ensure Sustainable Water Management

Water woes in the Kathmandu Valley are acute these days as in the past. The Melamchi Drinking Water Project has almost been completed but there are still snags. The national pride project, which started in November 2001, began distributing water to the Kathmandu Valley in March 2021. The project has a capacity of supplying 170 million litres of water a day. The people were elated when they enjoyed the baptism of the supply of water from the Melamchi River but their elation turned into frustration when the water supply came to an end in June of that year after the flash floods destroyed the infrastructure of the project, including its dam and water treatment plant. Since then, the water supply from the Melamchi has been erratic. Now also, there is no water supply from the Melamchi River.