Overextraction and shrinking open spaces cause groundwater depletion in Kathmandu Valley

Authorities plan to harvest rainwater at TU Teaching Hospital and other government buildings to replenish aquifers.

All three deep borewells at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj have gone defunct—the last one dried up some five months ago. Of the other two, one dried up some eight months ago and the other 18 months ago.