Sunday, October 4, 2009

Where the Water Comes From..

Working with a moderately poor community in Kathmandu the past 3 weeks, one of our major questions has been wondering where the water supply comes from. They have plumbing infrastructure, but no water supply in this part of the city - instead tanker trucks bring water on a daily basis, filling up water tanks from which the community then distributes rations. I plan to post more on this later, when the picture is more clear - but this weekend my trek ended up at the beginning of the pipeline from which most of Kathmandu gets its water currently. It happens at an interesting point when a national park forest dissipates rather quickly into civilization and then to city.


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Richard_Alomar said...
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Richard_Alomar said...

These observations are really facinating. These roads seem awfully congested...what's the extent of pollution, air quality, and noise problems?