Pokhreli hoteliers have requested the drinking water institute to facilitate water supply in the tourist area.
On Monday, the team of Hotel Association Pokhara submitted a letter of attention to Ashish Karki, head of the office of Drinking Water Institute Pokhara, to solve the problem of drinking water in the area where there is a lot of tourists.
The businessmen complained to Chief Karki that they had to buy boring water. "As there is a compelling situation where hotels and tourism professionals have to purchase bore water and serve their guests on a daily basis, we request them to arrange drinking water regularly in Pokhara, the capital of tourism, and tourist residential areas, Lakeside and Damside," the attention letter said.
Pokhara Hotel Association President Laxman Subedi said that the businessmen are suffering due to lack of sufficient water supply. He said that we should be aware of the possibility of sending a negative message because of the water problem in the areas where tourists are active.
Chief Karki said that the office is serious about the easy supply of drinking water in tourist areas. JICA's water supply plan is from 2015, so the current needs of Pokhara could not be met, said Karki, the head of the office. He said that leakage and theft of water is another problem.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has handed over the Pokhara Drinking Water Improvement Project to the Government of Nepal after the completion of the 'Pokhara Water Supply Improvement Project', which was contracted in August 2014 for the purpose of supplying treated water to Pokhareli. The Japanese government has provided 4 billion 813 million grant support to make this project. The work of this project is not finished. Under the
project, there is a plan to purify 40 million liters of water daily and send it to households.
19 out of 33 wards of Pokhara have a daily demand of 87 million liters of water. At present, 62 million liters of water is distributed daily in Pokhara. Due to production and supply imbalance, water has not been able to reach Pokhareli's house as required. In Pokhara, Mardikhola water is distributed now. Other water supply projects and local resources are used in the wards except 1 to 19 of Pokhara.
