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Public toilets |
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Saturday, 07 May 2016 |
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The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is in bad need of more public toilets. The conditions of the few such toilets lack hygiene as a result of which most of the public refrain from using them. They for the most part lack water and the odious stench emitted by them is difficult to tolerate.
As this plight of the capital valley’s denizens continues unabated it is high time more public toilets were built. |
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Public toilets in Valley in poor condition |
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Friday, 06 May 2016 |
 Kathmandu: A study on public latrines in the Kathmandu Valley in 2012 showed that people refrained from using public toilets due to poor hygiene and lack of cleanliness.
Although four years have passed since the study, was conducted, the condition of public latrines still remains pathetically poor in the Valley. |
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Tap water |
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Thursday, 05 May 2016 |
Piped gas may be a distant dream, but piped water shouldn’t have to be
 Kathmandu: It is a sad irony that the entire nation is familiar with—so much so that it has become normal. We have all heard for decades that our nation is the second richest country in hydro resources after Brazil. Whether or not that is a fact is a separate matter, but Nepal does have plenty of water. Unfortunately, most of it is untapped. |
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Dhading water scarcity hits displaced families most |
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Thursday, 05 May 2016 |
By: Harihar Singh Rathour
DHADING: Water supply for the earthquake-displaced camps in Dhading Besi, the district headquarters of Dhading, have been cut off by locals as the water scarcity gets worse in the region. |
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Lowest April rainfall in 30 years |
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Wednesday, 27 April 2016 |
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KATHMANDU: With water sources drying up in many parts of the country, people have been reeling under acute scarcity of drinking water. Due to inadequate rainfall and prolonged drought, most water sources are either drying up or retreating. Met officials at the Metrological Forecasting Division (MFD) under the Department of Hydrology and Metrology said that the ongoing dryness is the most severe in the last 30 years. "Most areas across the country have seen less than normal rainfall," Sameer Shrestha, meteorologist at the MFD, said. "Apart from the eastern region, rainfall in all other four regions is 20 percent less than normal." |
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