The Ministry of Environment has finalised the standards for drinking water as part of the National Action Plan to implement the National Drinking Water Policy approved by the Federal Cabinet in September 2009.
Sources mentioned the absence of the...
Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new study says.
Rebecca Neumann hangs off the end of bamboo scaffolding built at the field site. Assisted by a man...
Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia’s West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say.
Aid agencies are delivering...
Rural women in Nepal, especially schoolgirls, are still treated as untouchables during menstruation, resulting in health problems and growing absenteeism.
Social Development Advisor of WaterAid Nepal Om Prasad Gautam says, “Menstrual hygiene is...
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has claimed that the Nepal Water Supply Corporation (NWSC) has committed irregularities in the supply and delivery of ductile iron pipes fitting and MS pipes. Issuing a press release, the...
