Tulsa Gharti of Ghartigaon, Barekot Rural Municipality-6 of Jajarkot, goes to the Panikhola spring, which is half an hour away, every day for drinking water. After the earthquake of October 2080 damaged the spring and tank of the local Tase water supply scheme, the village has been without water supply for almost 21 months.

 The earthquake also damaged the Bayala water supply scheme located at Barekot-1. "One garri of water brought in the morning is not enough to cook food," said Saraswati Gharti, a local, "After the drought, even the springs around the village dried up. One person's job is to carry water all day long without hunger and thirst. Now we are stuck and forced to use water." are forced to bring water . "Morning-evening time is spent collecting drinking water," said Tulsa, "We are forced to defecate in the forest because there is no water to take from the taps. We have no choice but to go down to the river to wash clothes and bathe." is . According to the committee, the supply of drinking water has been stopped due to the destruction of 106 water supply schemes including tanks and pipelines.

Purnakala Rana of Bheri-1 Rimna said that the stay of Tahara has become difficult due to the problem of drinking water. According to him, about one and a half hundred households in Rimna have been washed away from drinking, going to the toilet and drinking water for feeding animals. She said that after the water of the bubbling drinking water spring above the village overflowed due to the earthquake, water stopped flowing in the stream. He complains that now he has to go to the river Bheri, which is half an hour away, to bring water. "Due to the lack of water, the surrounding bushes are forced to go to defecate," she said, "The government neglected to build permanent housing and did not provide drinking water." According to him, about 300 families in Dandatol, a village above Rimna, are forced to walk for about an hour to consume the water that came from Bheri. He said that due to lack of water in the school where 450 students are studying, four toilets of the school are unusable and the students have to carry it from home.

Due to the long drought, Dhan Bahadur Wik of Kapkeka of Barekot Rural Municipality-9 said that they had to suffer greatly for water when the springs around the village dried up. According to him, around 120 families are forced to walk for half an hour to Siddherikhola spring to get water after the spring of Kapke water supply project was buried by almost one foot due to the earthquake. "For one garri of water, we had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the spring to fetch water, water was also stuck and used," he said, "women and children have to fetch water all morning." Mayor Dambar Bahadur Rawat said that in Nalgad, around 3,000 families were forced to cross rivers, Bheri rivers and various springs to search for mines after the water supply schemes including Halchaur, Kaikhola, Tiuri, and Bolkhola were damaged.

'Residents of Bheri riverside settlements are forced to consume contaminated water from the river,' he said, 'Due to contaminated water, diarrhea and other health problems have also started to appear.' With increasing heat, patients with fever, cold, typhoid, diarrhea etc. have increased due to the rising heat, said Vishal Upreti, head of Nalgad City Hospital. He said that up to 150 patients come to the hospital daily for treatment.

The shortage of drinking water has also occurred in Bheri Municipality located at the headquarters. "There was a year-round water supply problem in winter and summer," said Vasant Prasad Sharma, the ward president of Bheri Municipality-4, "Even the springs that supply water to the market dried up due to the earthquake, water comes once in 3/4 days, so we had to supply it." A tap has been installed for nearly 300 families by extracting water through deep boring. "You have to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go to the stream to fill water," said Sarita Rokaye of Rokaytol in Kudu, "otherwise it is difficult to get water, even if you wake up at 3 o'clock, at least 30/40 hundred women have already gathered." After the earthquake, about 80 percent of Kudu people have migrated to the local temporary shelters.

'More sanitation work should be done in Tahara,' said Kalpana Rokay, a local, 'The problem is quenching thirst due to the increasing heat.' The Ward President of Nalgad Municipality-4, Badri Pant, said that after the earthquake, Jajarkot, where there was already a shortage of water supply, has become even more scarce.

"After the earthquake, there was a long drought last year and this year," he said, "after the water dried up, there was no choice but to drink the polluted water of the Bheri river." Bir Bahadur Giri, President of Barekot Rural Municipality, said that plans have been prioritized to solve the problem of water shortage. "The earthquake has damaged water supply schemes in all the wards along with other public structures," he said. Mangal Shahi, Head of Water Irrigation and Energy Development Office, Jajarkot, said that the problem of water shortage after the earthquake could not be solved due to budget problems. According to him, this year, 1 billion 60 million budgets have been requested from 7 local levels, but only 80 million rupees have been spent.