Kathmandu: Teku area is full of foul smell, as the solid waste accumulated in Teku Transfer Station lie uncollected for the past two months. Locals fear that cholera may spread due to uncollected garbage and rain. A local Rajendra Shahi told that the Environment Management Department has not paid heed towards the repeated requests of the locals to remove garbage from the Teku Transfer Station.

Kathmandu: Water Aid Nepal organized a three day photo exhibition ‘School Sanitation: The Neglected Development Link’ to showcase sanitation at schools, Thursday at Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal. The exhibition was inaugurated by a four-year-old Bunu Nepal in the absence of Minister for Education Gangalal Tuladhar. The exhibition features images by Nepali Photo journalists who through their lens have illustrated the effect of sanitation on the lives of school children across Kathmandu Valley.

Kathmandu: Capital city is stinking once again as the vehicles of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) carrying garbage have not been able to go to the Sisdole landfill site. The KMC stated that it has not been able to transport garbage to the landfill site as landslides following incessant rains for the past some days have blocked the roads. Tonnes of solid waste have piled up in major streets of Kathmandu and Lalitpur.
 

Kathmandu, August 11: WaterAid in Nepal launched school sanitation campaign, with the opening of a photo exhibition, School Sanitation: The Neglected Development Link at Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal, Kathmandu. The exhibition features 43 striking photographs captured by Nepali photo journalists from 18 community schools in 5 districts, illustrating the effect of sanitation on the lives of school children.

Lalitpur: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an assistance of $ 500,000 for waste management in Nepal. According to the Ministry of Local Development, the Government of Nepal will also provide $ 100,000 for the project, which was launched recently. The 14-month project will focus on policy, strategy, capacity-building, analysis and regulations, said ADB officials at an event jointly organised today with the ministry.

Kathmandu: The ‘Asia-Pacific Youth Forum on Climate Actions and Mountain Issues’, a weeklong training and knowledge-sharing programme on climate change and mountain development, kicked off in the Capital today. The forum that has witnessed the participation of 42 youth from 17 Asian countries aims to “help build the next generation of leadership on sustainable mountain development and climate actions,” said the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the organiser.

By: Rishiram Poudyal

Chautara: Construction of diversion tunnel, the major component of the Melamchi Water Supply Project, has gained pace following the pressure from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Chinese Contractor Company has brought in additional machines from China to expedite tunnel construction. It has also started the construction of audit access tunnel from Ambathan and Gyalthum.

Dhading: Toilets are being constructed rapidly in a bid to declare Nilkantha 1-Khaniyagau, Dhading as an area free from open defecation. The campaign is being organised to stop the spread of diseases in the locality, which is often caused by filthy and stingy environment. Women Empowerment Center and Drinking Water and Sanitation Division Office Dhading have started a new campaign entitled "One house, one toilet".

Rajbiraj: The row between sanitation workers and sanitation department in-charge at Rajbiraj Municipality is posing a threat to the health of locals. Daily wage workers at Rajbiraj Municipality sanitation department have halted work for the past one week demanding the ouster of municipality sanitation in-charge Umesh Yadav.

By: Tek Narayan Bhattarai

Palpa: The diarrhea-hit Galdha VDC has now been facing drinking water crisis after locals of neighboring Mityal VDC obstructed water supply to the village. Mityal villagers obstructed water supply by destroying a water tank at the supply source. They also threw away pipes that supplied water from the source to Galdha. Half-a-dozen villages in Galdha VDC are facing drinking water shortage for the past five days.

Admitting the lack of public toilets in the capital city, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to construct 30 public toilets in the busiest and bustling areas of the capital including Kalanki, Chabahil, Bhotahiti and Balkhu. It is commendable that the new toilets will be disabled friendly. Almost all the existing toilets in the capital city are not disabled-friendly, due to which, the people with disability face difficulties in using public toilets.

Lack of public toilet is one of the major problems in the Kathmandu metropolis that is in the grip of unplanned urbanization and massive population growth. It is a matter of happiness that the Kathmandu metropolitan City has geared up to construct new public toilets with special facilities considering the shortage of public toilets in Kathmandu. This initiative will not only maintain urban sanitation but also benefit the group of people who are deprived from using public toilets.

This is in reference to the news ‘KMC to build new public toilet’ (Aug 5). According to the news, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is all set to construct 30 public toilets in the busiest and bustling areas of the capital including Kalanki, Chabahil, Bhotahiti and Balkhu. It is commendable that the new toilets will be disabled friendly.

A news report in an economic daily says that only two kilometers of the Melamchi tunnel have been bored in two years. At this rate, many of the residents of Kathmandu in their forties will not live to see the completion of the Melamchi project that is meant to be the solution to Kathmandu’s drinking water problem.