Kathmandu: A city of temples; a favourite answer for never asked question in the quiz contest held in Nepal. Kathmandu according to the myth, was once a lake and all the water was drained out by Manjushree and civilization commenced. From that very moment this valley never ran scarce of water supply as it has hundreds of Dhungedhara (stone tap), well and natural spring just enough to meet the daily consumption of inhabitants. The word Kakakul is the name of the bird that drink water by digging its beat deep beneath the riverbank and quench its thirst.
We people of Kathmandu are not different than that birds because we are surrounded by various sources of water around the valley still hoping that one fine day, Melamchi Project will quench our thirst and wash away our daily problem of drinking water. Like that bird turned the view of water, we never glanced around the water resources within our proximities, like Shivapuri, Godavari, Matatirtha, Ichangu, Bungamati, etc. These are just the name of few water resources used by our starred hotels of Kathmandu, all of them are natural springs.
The tankers of capacity 10KL-20KL are engaged transporting water whole day to meet the requirement of Hotels. What if the government establish the project of its own at small scale for water supply to its citizen. Drinking water has become a sprouting business in context of kathmandu. There are more than 50 different industries involved in bottling and delivering the water from various natural resources. If we calculate the jar or pet bottle n which the water is filled is much more expensive than water itself which we have to import from third countries.
Problem of drinking water won't remain as issue if our government manage the water resources around the valley and stop thinking about Melamchi project. It has already been proved in laboratories that most of these natural spring don't contain any type of microbes or harmful element like arsenic; instead they consist of beneficial minerals. So, why don't we try to turn this problem into the solution as we can export these bottled natural spring water to gulf country as we did to our brothers in order to get remittance.
We people of Kathmandu are not different than that birds because we are surrounded by various sources of water around the valley still hoping that one fine day, Melamchi Project will quench our thirst and wash away our daily problem of drinking water. Like that bird turned the view of water, we never glanced around the water resources within our proximities, like Shivapuri, Godavari, Matatirtha, Ichangu, Bungamati, etc. These are just the name of few water resources used by our starred hotels of Kathmandu, all of them are natural springs.
The tankers of capacity 10KL-20KL are engaged transporting water whole day to meet the requirement of Hotels. What if the government establish the project of its own at small scale for water supply to its citizen. Drinking water has become a sprouting business in context of kathmandu. There are more than 50 different industries involved in bottling and delivering the water from various natural resources. If we calculate the jar or pet bottle n which the water is filled is much more expensive than water itself which we have to import from third countries.
Problem of drinking water won't remain as issue if our government manage the water resources around the valley and stop thinking about Melamchi project. It has already been proved in laboratories that most of these natural spring don't contain any type of microbes or harmful element like arsenic; instead they consist of beneficial minerals. So, why don't we try to turn this problem into the solution as we can export these bottled natural spring water to gulf country as we did to our brothers in order to get remittance.
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