As people are highly dependent on rain water, it is essential to retain and reuse as much as possible for later use, so that the drinking water fetching time is reduced and stored. Excess water can be reused for productive purposes through means of micro-irrigation or for cattle watering.
BSP-Nepal aims to improve access to quantity and quality water supply (mostly rainwater) and sanitation infrastructures, ground water recharge, improve personal hygiene, and domestic/ environmental sanitation, particularly focusing on children, women, the poor and marginalised, and communities in remote areas. These improvements will contribute to multiple use of water for livelihood enhancement.
==Location and partners==
* Themes: 3R, MUS, business development, food security
* Other themes: WASH
====Objectives====
# Enhancing community’s and sector supporting agencies (civil society organization and local government body) to manage, operate and maintain water supply and sanitation scheme or other built up infrastructures in a sustainable way
# Implementation of 3R solutions to provide water
# Increased health and improved livelihood through improved sanitation and hygiene as well as improved food production
# Income generation through MUS of RWH and enhanced dignity through entrepreneurship skill
====Activities====
# Identification, Selection, Prioritization , Baseline/Feasibility/Detailed Study
# Construction of 58 household Level RWH systems
# Construction of 2 institutional /Communal RWH at schools
# RWH mason training
# Sanitation & Hygiene Awareness Program/Trainings at catchment level
# Installation of Toilets
# Meeting, Coordination & Linkage Built-up with stakeholders
# Support for drip irrigation, plastic ponds & other appropriate low cost technologies
# Integrating Biogas
# Awareness program for Biogas component
# User's training on operation and maintenance
# Training on use of Slurry for income generation
# Monitoring
====Swot analysis====
Here is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT analysis] (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) of the project:
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|style="color:black; background-color:#EDEDED;"|'''Strengths:''' <br>
* Combination of WASH measures and MUS of water for food security and environmentally sustainable solutions
* Microfinance component and income generating activities
* Strong collaboration with local decision makers
|style="color:black; background-color:#EDEDED;"|'''Weaknesses:''' <br>
* Rainwater harvesting still low on priority list of local decision makers
* ...
* ...
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|style="color:black; background-color:#EDEDED;"|'''Opportunities:'''
* Low cost, ‘add-on’ technologies are offered, which might be replicated or installed by population without interference of donors
* ...
* ...
|style="color:black; background-color:#EDEDED;" | '''Threats:''' <br>
* Isolated area: difficult access might hamper/slow down construction
* Isolated area: the result might be ‘invisible’ for outsiders, thereby compromising the demonstrative/ showcase effects
* Non-respect of population in paying back their micro-loans
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! scope="col" |Current situation
! scope="col" |Expected results
! scope="col" |Actual results
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|'''Water supply'''
|Absence of pipe-line water supply and springs, no potentials of borewell
|Rooftop rainwater harvesting and small-scale gravity flow schemes
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|'''MUS'''
|High dependence on in situ rainwater for agriculture and cattle watering
|Rainwater and waste water harvesting for irrigation
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|'''3R'''
|Drying up of existing streams
|Spring source conservation and infrastructure improvements; ground water recharge for mid-hill source
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|'''Business development'''
|Subsistence agriculture
|Crop diversification and possibly surplus production
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====Outputs====
* '''Total number of people:''' 1165 (direct beneficiaries water infrastructure)
* '''Type of target group (social / cultural):''' marginal and Dalit
* '''Economic status:''' poor
* '''Current economic activities:''' subsistence agriculture, small sale cattle keeping
* '''Type(s) of water harvesting:''' roof water harvesting
* '''Type(s) of storage system(s):''' rainwater jars (<10 m3) and underground tanks (>60m3)
* '''Number of systems:''' 58 rainwater jars (<10 m3), 2 underground tanks (>60m3)
* '''Number of systems at household level:''' 58
* '''Number of systems at schools:''' 2
==Documents, videos and links==
* [http://www.bspnepal.org.np/ BSP-Nepal]
* [http://www.simavi.nl/ Simavi]