However, it is only since the First Five Year Plan (1956-61AD) that the water supply became somehow organized and systematic in the Kathmandu Valley.
There is an acute problem of water due to rapid population growth in urban areas. The demand for drinking water is very high but difficult to fulfill. Most of the water-pipes laid down during the time of Ranas have little or no maintenances. Due to the carelessness of the people, water goes wasted as taps are left open even after use. In the Terai, most of the people have to depend upon the tube well for the drinking water. Such water contains arsenic which is one of the causes of skin disease. Thus the problem of drinking water is everywhere in Nepal.
The government, donor countries and agencies, private sectors and NGOs/INGOs have been undertaking various initiatives to improve this situation. Melamchi Water Project is one of such initiatives. This project has been undertaken in 2005, but still a long way to complete. Once this project is completed, it is hoped that it will meet the water demand of the Kathmandu Valley for some years to come.
- About 70% of the human body is made up of water.
- The first piped water for drinking purpose was launched in Kathmandu during the time of Bir Shumsher.
- About 71% of the earth is covered with water, and Nepal boasts to be the second richest in water resources.
- In most of the remote and rural areas, people drink directly from the sources like rivers, spring, ponds etc.
In hilly areas, sources of water are very far and limited. Cost of water projects is rising up due to political instability, inflation, power shortage and distant location of sources. Diseases like dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid, and cholera spread due to unsafe and polluted water.
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- The water of Terai has a high level of arsenic.
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- Leakage, mismanagement, and lack of proper equipment and technology
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- Lack of proper planning and programming on drinking water.
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- Rapidly growing population but limited sources of water.
- Lack of electricity to pump up water uphill of rivers and streams.
Source and Current Position of Water in Nepal
This is being described in the Nepalese context. Nepal has immense water resource based on continuous supply from the Himalayas. The sources are-
- Rivers- Nepal is known as a riverine country because it is full of water. Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali are the principal rivers.
- Lakes and ponds- Nepal has several lakes and ponds, Fewa, Rara, Begnas, and Dahakunda are important.
- Groundwater- There is abundant groundwater source in the plains and the valley, Tube well & pumps can be installed. In the Terai, the entire belt is a groundwater belt.
- Hot water spring- In various parts of the country, notable in Muktinath, Dang, Myagdi & Bajhang there are numerous hot water springs. Hydropower can be generated from hot water springs.
- Rainfall- It in a seasonal water resource, depending on monsoon. The average rainfall in the country is estimated to be around 60 inches per year. It is important to the source of irrigation water in Nepal.
- Glaciers- Nepal is also rich in glaciers. The Himalayan range consists many glaciers which are the chief source of water.
Use and Important of Water Resources in Nepal
Water means life. No living being can live without water. It is one of the most basic elements for all living beings. It is as indispensable as air for us. About 70% of the human body is made up of water. Human beings can live without food for some time but not without water. Water is used for various purposes, such as for cooking food, washing clothes, bathing, growing crops, construction work and for generating hydro-electricity. Water plays a vital role in the development of a country.
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- Drinking water- The primary use of water is for drinking purposes. About 40% rural population and 68% of the urban population of Nepal have been provided drinking water facilities.
- Irrigation – Another important use if water resource is for irrigation purposes. Nepal’s total irrigation potential is estimated to be 2.65 million-hectare. But eight plan has a program to extend irrigation facilities to additional 2.83 million-hectare during the plan period.
- Hydroelectric power- Nepal’s water resource is very important for use in generating hydroelectric About 238.3 megawatt of hydroelectric power has been generated so far. The eight plans have the target to generate additional 29,700 kW of hydroelectric power.
- Fish farming- There are immense possibilities for substantially increase fish production. The eight productions to 22,311 metric tones per year at the end to the plan period. Many others are also found.
- Waterway – Its use in transportation is limited.
- Industrial use – Water is indispensably necessary for almost all industries.
- Tourism development – Lakes, ponds, waterfalls are attractions for tourists and thus enhance the national economy.
Importance of water in human life
Reasons Why Water is Important to Human’s Everyday Life: – No water no life. It is the most spreading sayings of the world, and for it to save the water, there is much organization which is pointing campaign to save water. The water is like the blood which is needed for every work and it provides you the energy to move upward and both downward. There are many species who even live without water, but we can tell about those creatures made b the God. But we the human beings are adhesively connected to the water which can’t be distracted by our wish and obligation.
Water is playing the transformations of all the energetic elements of the body which are running and processing in the body. It is the components which make the creatures and mostly the human beings live. It embraces and accelerates the human life in the moderate platform without any disease blocks. There are many diseases which can take place and trap you if you lack to input the water in the body. The main medicines of the body also you can tell it, to make the absolute movement and disease free body.
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Water plays the crucial role to make the human more strong more moveable and more dynamic to conquer and confess anything that they want without tiredness and resting. Higher drinking water gives you higher strength to do works more and continue for meeting the standard and requirement too. So let’s know much more importance of water with different aspects which it is used and gives you more beneficiary for your life activeness and designation with the energetic and emotive act:
Top 14 Reasons Why Water is Important to Human’s Everyday Life
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70% water consistency:
Our body is made of different components, among them, water plays a vital role in the mobilization and movements of all the body parts in the right direction. The body demands mineral to conduct their system in the right direction, which needs water to make it better movements and flow of the water in every part of the body. The pure water makes your body pure and polluted free, that becomes your internal stamina for fighting with any coming disease. Water is like the police which ran away all the coming thief and bandit for assaulting your body by carrying disease in their career.
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RBC AND WBC formulation:
The body needs every component in the actual ratio for the works and processing. However. The need and maintenance of the body in actual balance. There is a need for water to maintain the orders and equilibrium of all the flows and supply of all parts. The input of blood goes in the belly and then after many processing, the water is converted into cells, some of them are converted into red blood cells and some of them is converted into white blood cells. Although the supply of water makes you the proper human beings having white blood cells and red blood of purity to survive.
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Cooking food:
The man survives only after the daily processing of taking food and making output. There are many items and food types which need confirmed water for preparing delicious food. And there exists no any food items and process, from which the food or any items can be cooked without the supplement of water. The daily habit or works we can call it which is necessary to prepare for a better life and survive. We cannot survive without water, similarly, the food is also our daily need . in the lack of all these we have the blockade to live a convenient life with the happy face.
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Bathing:
It is also called and treated the medicine which makes your daily action energetic by making your intention and attention energetic. A person can eat and drink any kinds of juice but in absence of bathing, we can f not do our works with full esteem and actively. Life is always giving the person some new opportunity to display their stamina and art in the mirror of the public. But it determines upon you rather make your art published or not. The man is only recognized by everyone if the person is familiar with them or are praised by them.
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Cleaning:
Everything in man makes looking smart but these all are the external factors which may describe your personality and lifestyle. But when the person or any guest visits your home and there is not the cleanliness environment it will make you insulted in the public, the person with many characteristics may disappear or appear with insulting tag. The man is always rewarded for their cleanliness not in the mirror but backward of the mirror too. People appreciate your homes diary and auditorium that you have constructed and made. For these types of activities also water plays a very beneficial role for the conversion of all the wastes into the garbage and remake the environment beautiful.
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Personality maintenance:
The man with expensive clothes will not verify or signifies all the characteristics fully if your physically and mentally is not active and energetic. For making the personality maintenance you have to manage all the body parts mostly the stomach which come out without the constellation. The personality is only managed if there is a high supply of water which makes your looks and figures attractive. To make the body fit and valuable, there is most need of water supply in proportion to substitute all the criteria which are going outside of the borders.
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Toileting:
It is also the regular basis works done by everyone. To maintain the body in orders and make the body fit and healthy, you have to consume the actual level and amount of water for the maintenance of body system in the right path. The person has to bear the many compensations if any mistake he or she have done. But it determines the condition and the problems whether it has crossed the level or not, or it can be retained or not for extending of the body. As I have already said the man only keep fit if they take or consumes regular and proportion of water for the hydrating and hygienic body.
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