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Safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are basic human necessities, and continuous access to these services are people's right. Yet, in our country many Nepalis are deprived of water and sanitation (WHS) facilities despite the constant government and non government efforts. Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2006 reports the national drinking water coverage of the country at 82 percent. A large proportion of people belonging to poor and excluded groups, those living in areas beyond the sources or scarce in ground water resources still have not been able to receive drinking water facilities.
The status of basic sanitation in the country is in a far worse condition. According to the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2006 only 42 percent of the population in Nepal use improved latrines and a majority of them do not adopt good hygiene practices. Lack of access to improved facilities of water and sanitation coupled with meagre awareness has victimised people with various diseases in large numbers every year and has been a cause for untimely deaths of many. Annually 13,000 children are lost to diarrhoeal diseases even before they reach the age of five (UNICEF 2005)
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Nepal Water For Health
Lohasal, Kathmandu
Ph: 977-01-4377107/4377108
Fax: 977-01-4370078
P.O. Box: 4231
Email: newah@newah.org.np
Contact person : Mr. Umesh Pandey, Director
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