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Prolonged dry spell leads to acute water scarcity

by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 8, 2023Renuka Nepali, a local from Ritthe village in Ramechhap’s Doramba Sailung Rural Municipality-6, wakes up at 3 am everyday and walks for one-and-a-half hours to a nearby stream to fetch water. This wasn’t always the case. The problem emerged after the source supplying drinking water to Nepali’s village dried up due to a prolonged dry spell. As a result, Nepali and other villagers have been forced…