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Water-Development-Bulletin-Vol.-2-1991


The International Water Supply Decade has ended. In the ten-year period, from 1980 to 1990, about five million Nepalese people were supplied with drinking water through pipes and tube-wells. For the generations that had languished in obscurity, High Density Polythene Pipes (HDP), brought water, the most felt need closer to homes. And in the process, HDP pipe became, and in all probability may continue as the polemical weapon to push through political manifesto.

While most of the society was kept isolated from development till the 1950s, the powerful aristocracy that ruled Nepal never lagged behind in benefiting from western technology. Kathmandu’s drinking water system, Bir Dhara was built about one hundred years ago to serve palaces in the capital. The aged and leaking pipes below the streets of Kathmandu, today still forms part of the city’s supply network. Supply improvement outside the capital was unattended and even today remains so.

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