Since one and a half months chapakal has dried up, there is a shortage of drinking water in Rajgarh Rural Municipality-3 Nargho West Village of Saptari.

1,000 common people of that village, which has 150 households, are buying water from bottles and jars at high prices, while poor Dalit families are forced to survive on pond water. However, the Dinabhadri drinking water and sanitation project, built by the rural municipality in collaboration with donor agencies at a cost of one crore rupees, is awaiting inauguration.

Three years ago, a 45 thousand liter capacity tank has been placed under this project . Additional work has also been completed a year ago, and 30 people have been raised and connected with water at the rate of 3/3 thousand rupees. However, even though there is a clamor for water in the village, they do not give water in the stream.

"They connected the water only after taking 3,000, they said that the tank will be inaugurated on June 23 and water will be provided from the same day, but even when there is a shortage of drinking water, they do not give water," said local Sonidevi Sah. It's getting hard . "The call is in the pool deal, but the water has stopped coming for one and a half months," she said. "There is a tank filled with water nearby, but we are thirsty," she added, "who listens to our problem." However, due to the lack of water supply, the landowners are also disappointed. "Well, when will they inaugurate, will we live or not until then?" Sada, who is also the chairman of the project management committee, said, "I have nothing in my hand. They have gone to say that they will inaugurate when the big sirs come and it will be restored, but they have not returned for months." He also requested that the water supply be restored.

Rural Municipality President Omprakash Mandal said that the water tank will be operated soon. "There was a delay for some time due to the partnership work, but now we will resume it," he said, "There is still a little work to be done." Locals said that some villages of Bodebarsain, Dakneshwari and Rajviraj Municipalities and Chinnamasta Rural Municipality of the district are suffering from water shortage due to dry pipes.

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The municipality has installed two boreholes in Dhangadhimai Municipality-13 Bharnaini of Siraha where 150 families live. There, water has stopped coming from the boring for two weeks.

They are forced to come to the same place and wait for their turn to fill water  . According to local Radha Ram, both borings have started giving very little water since two weeks. Devaki Mochi, a local, says that she has to wait for her turn even to get water. "It is not easy to get water even in a boring place. You have to stand in line, it takes half an hour to stand in line," she said.

Since the tubewells that have been receiving continuous water for years have dried up, the common people in Bara and Parsa are forced to buy and drink water from bottles and jars. 58-year-old Sushil Aryal, a resident of Birgunj-13 Tejarath Toll, also says that this is the first time in his lifetime that there has been such a shortage of drinking water in Birgunj.

"Indeed, this problem has been seen since 3 years ago," he said, "but this year, this problem has been seen in a big way." As this problem is also seen in the rural areas except Birgunj, most of the tubewells installed in the houses in the neighboring Bara district have dried up and are facing problems for drinking water. Even in the Chure area, where there is a source of water, uncontrolled sand-gravel exploitation and forest destruction have not only dried up in the tubewell. There is no water even in ponds, streams, and ponds.

When the local level gave a contract for sand-gravel from the river in Chure area to increase its income, the locals say that the source of water has dried up due to uncontrolled and haphazard cutting. It has been a week and a half since the rain stopped flowing in the house of 60-year-old Srilal Sah of Bahuri, Birganj Metropolitan City-24. There is no water even in the 2 deep borings buried by the office of Birgunj Metropolitan Corporation in the village of 450 Dhardhuri.

'There is a family of 12 people, there is a cow and a calf too,' says Srilal, 'We don't have water to drink in the morning and evening,' he said, 'It is a pain to give water to the chaupaya.' The family of 8 people is suffering as Srilal's neighbor Vinay Giri's chapakal has also dried up.

'There is no water even to go to the toilet in the morning,' he said, 'to whom to tell this pain, our people's representative does not care, the people's representative of the neighboring ward has delivered water even though there are 2/3 tankers daily.' Local Lalu Giri said that there is a problem because there is not enough water in the 2 deep borings in the big village.

All the wards of the metropolis are facing similar problems. This problem is more in rural settlements including Bahuari, Harpatgant, Nagwa, Lakshmanwa. Even though there is a drinking water supply system in the urban areas, there is no option in the rural areas. Damodar Prasad Yadav, president of Health and Environment Protection Center (CHEK), Nepal, an organization working in the field of environment, says that due to the lack of regular monsoon rains, the cyclic system of underground water sources has been disrupted, and water has stopped coming to Chapakal. He said that due to the trend of deep boring in houses and commercial establishments in urban areas, underground water resources are also being depleted.

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It has been boring for three years

The chapakal of Sugandhi Devi of Patharabudhram, located in Moulapur municipality-6 of Rautahat, has dried up since February . She said that it is difficult to reach the place where the boring is installed to tap water dozens of times.

'We have been full of boring for three years . "It is difficult to do other things when you have to tap water all day long," she said. After drying up of more than 400 houses in the village, the locals are in dire need of water. Most of the villages are dependent on deep boring conducted by the municipality after the chapakal has dried up.

Almost 800 households in Ward-5 and 6 have not received water since February. Here, even though they have installed a fire pit at home, they are all dry. During the drought season, the municipality has installed 10 deep borings in these wards after water started drying up in most of the streams in the village. Pravin Yadav, the ward secretary of number 6, said that by placing small pipes in the boreholes installed by the municipality, the locals are supplying water even if it is little.

'The problem has been seen for three years . "We have told the municipality that we have to investigate how and why the tap water has started to dry up," he said. After the water stopped coming in the stream, the locals go to tap the water in the boring that is used for planting. Locals have demanded to build a tank in the long term to eliminate the problem of drinking water in this area.

Maulapur mayor Rinadevi Sah claimed that the locals got a lot of relief after 10 deep borings were done in Patharadhuram village of Ward 6. "The water in my house has dried up." What can I say," she said, "I have been taking initiatives for drinking water tanks. The ministers of the state government have not helped.' Kumartol of Ward 6 and the market area of Ward 5 have dried up. In winter and when it rains, some streams get water . Ishwardayal Yadav, chairman of Ward 6, said that most of the streams dry up from February to August. The rice seeds prepared for planting by the farmers, who are forced to plant in the rain, have been destroyed by half of them.