Everyone has equal rights to sustainable and safe water supply and to good sanitation and hygiene.
Not all Nepalese
have access to safe drinking water
and adequate sanitation. Large part
of the population suffers from lack
of water and even more suffer from
lack of safe water, adequate
sanitation and good hygienic
practices. This leads to high
occurrence of water related
diseases. People die, and suffer
from poor health, and spend money
and time on recovering from the
diseases.
Lack
of safe drinking water
and adequate sanitation
causes
poverty. Usually the women and the girls
have to spend long times fetching water.
Girls drop out of school due to lack of time
and also due to lack of appropriate
sanitation facilities at schools. The
opportunities people have to engage in
themselves in activities that could help
them overcome poverty are diminished.
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in
Western Nepal (RWSSP-WN) is a rural water
supply, sanitation and hygiene sector
support program funded by the Governments of
Nepal and Finland that is committed to
support the Government of Nepal in providing
all its citizens the basic level of water
supply and sanitation services by the year
2017. The project period is for four years
from 2008 until 2012.
The RWSSP-WN office in Pokhara and District
Support Advisors based support and
strengthen the local bodies of the
participating nine districts of RWSSP-WN in
their work in the Water Supply, Sanitation
and Hygiene (WASH), and in the development
of the whole water supply, sanitation and
hygiene sector in the country.
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in
Western Nepal
Tel: +977-(0)61-531883/4
Fax No: +977-(0)61-531879
