Water crisis after flood blows away supply pipes; Hydropower burial puts village at dark

Morang / July 28: The flood-fed Teli Rivulet has blown away the drinking water supply pipes at Jante of Morang, keeping locals deprived of drinking water facility.

The flood triggered by downpour swept away supply pipes of the drinking water project that has been in operation since 1982. With this, around 1,000 households of the area have been deprived of using drinking water facility.

Chairperson of Jante Drinking Water and Sanitation Users Committee Dilli Biswokarma shared that 1,200 households of Jante wards no 1,2,8 and 9 are reeling under drinking water crisis after the floods and landslides of July 25 took away the pipes of the water supply project.

Water crisis is looming large in Jante after the drinking water pipes installed from Teli rivulet were swept away by floods and landslides.

Hydropower burial puts village at dark

Meanwhile, a landslide has buried a canal of Kathmadi micro hydropower project at Shikharpur-2 of Baitadi.

Krishna Saud, a local, informed that the landslide triggered by incessant rain has buried the canal that has thrown the electricity service of the village out of gear.

With the disruption of power, as many as 180 households of ward no 1, 2 and 3 of Shikharpur are being compelled to stay at dark.

Locals have voiced their concern that the damages caused to the canal of the micro hydropower project constructed in 2068 BS have created much trouble in their daily lives.

There is no likelihood to remove the landslide debris from the canal right now. RSS