Pipeline damage compels residents of a Salyan village to drink untreated water

Around 60 households in Namra village are drinking muddy water from the Bheri river and many people are falling ill.

Khagapati Sharma, a 76-year-old woman from Namra village in ward 1 of Bangad Kupinde Municipality, has resorted to drinking the murky and polluted water from the Bheri River for almost three months after the pipes of the Chipchipe-Namra Drinking Water Project that fed the village were destroyed during the construction of an irrigation canal.