Water Crisis: A short movie based on the discussion made with local people of Bhaktapur, Nepal 


The interview is totally based on the discussion with local people of Bhkatapur. They have been witnessing water crisis since last 8-10 years.  People did not use stone spout (dhunge dhara) and tube well usually for drinking water and household proposes as waster was available in home itself. But now stone spout and tube wells are dried; though there is a little water in some tube wells. Also people have to draw for more than an hour to fill one bucket of water from that tube well and it remains packed throughout the day.  We came to know that autonomous adaptation is done to address the water crisis. They are using temporary rain water harvesting for domestic purpose. To address this issue, awareness programs should be launched by different organization and explain them about rain water harvesting; as this is not seen in Bhaktapur . And the promotion of common storage tank should also be made as Bhaktapur is an old city and it does not have enough space.
Alternative solution
There is always a solution to every problem. From our visit to Bhaktapur, we found out that there is a crisis of water. So there are some alternative solution we can suggest to address that problem. They are listed below:
·         Rain water harvesting
·         Restoration and recharge of ponds
·         Formation of Common Storage tank on Open Space

Recommendation
Malthus theory is an evidence that population increases on geometric ratio but the productivity in arithmetic i.e. Land remains constants. Similar is the causes of water crisis in Bhaktapur. Increasing number of population and households, accelerating trend of urbanization, poor management of watersheds are the major causes of water crisis on Bhaktapur. And all these factors are accelerating the climate change. So we should address this problem in time otherwise, we shall ready to face its impacts on future. Here is the recommendation to address this problem and they are listed below:
a.       Practicing rainwater harvesting
b.      Awareness programs on watershed degradation
c.       Discouraging people for concrete land
d.      Encouraging for greenery

e.       Encouraging different organizing for providing the training programs on rainwater harvesting 

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