Counting the cost

The spread of water-borne diseases has broader economic and social consequences.

Ironically, people lack access to clean drinking water in Nepal, a land with no freshwater scarcity. Contaminated water and poor hygiene standards lead to a swarm of water-borne diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, to name a few. Lacking access to such necessities to sustain life, people in Nepal have to resort to unhygienic means to source water. As a consequence, diseases originating from contaminated water are rife in Nepal. Of late, there has been an outbreak of diarrhoea in Krishnanagar Municipality in Kapilvastu. And so far,