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After the success of community forestry and community water supply systems, communities are now starting to manage the waste water they generate. On Friday, 1 September, the people of Thimi cheered as Minister for Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Narendra Bikram Nemwang inaugurated Nepal’s first community based waste water treatment system at Sunga in Madhyapur Thimi.
Built with financial support from UN-HABITAT’s Water for Asian Cities Programme, Asian Development Bank, Water Aid, and technical support from the Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO), the plant uses constructed wetlands, a simple eco-friendly technology, to treat sewage from 200 households. Tests done by ENPHO show that the treatment plant removes more than 97 per cent of the pollutants from the waste water.
Speaking at the inauguration function, UN-HABIITAT's Chief Technical Advisor in Nepal, Dr. Roshan Raj Shrestha, said that the project provides a good demonstration for national and international experts on how waste water can be managed at the local level. Many guests and researchers will be coming to learn from your experience, he said.
During the function, Bhushan Tuladhar, Executive Director of ENPHO handed over the plant to the Madhyapur Thimi Municipality, who then handed it over to Krishna Lal Shrestha, Chairman of the Sunga Wastewater Treatment Plant Management Committee. The Municipality provided the land for the treatment and has agreed to contribute towards the Sunga Wastewater Treatment Plant's operation and maintenance.
The technology of constructed wetlands was first introduced in Nepal by ENPHO at Dhulikhel Hospital in 1997 and since then more than a dozen such plants have been established. Sunga Wastewater Treatment Plant is the biggest one and the first one to be totally managed by local communities. Because of their effectiveness and simplicity, such plants can be very useful in the context of Nepal, especially if communities can be mobilized to construct and manage such plants.
The Sunga Wastewater Management Committee also presented a detail account of all expenditures in the project, which amounted to about Rs. 1.85 million.
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