Babai Water Supply Project to complete by next July

By Liladhar Wali,Ghorahi, Sept. 2: The Babai Lifting Water Supply Project has recorded 74 per cent progress. The Ghorahi-based project has achieved three-fourth of the total development target in two years since the beginning of construction in mid-July 2022. 

Considering the growing population in Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City of Dang, the Ghorahi Water Supply Consumer and Sanitation Organization (GWSCSO) started the project to solve the water shortage in the long term. Under the water supply project, works such as the expansion of the transmission pipeline and the construction of tanks for water collection have been completed, while the pipeline is being expanded to deliver water to the consumers' homes.

The Rs. 498.5 million project is being developed by Bhimeshwar Drilling and Construction Company. According to the project manager of Bhimeshwor Drilling, Bishnu Kumai, under the Babai Lifting Water Supply Scheme, the work of laying 23.2 km long 400 mm DI transmission pipeline from Ghorahi-7, Shukrabar to Ghorahi-14, Jhingaura, and construction of four tanks for water collection has been completed. 

The pipeline will be extended to 28.6 km area of water ​​distribution.

About 27 km pipeline has to be extended in Jhigoura along with 200 cubic meter RVT tank to deliver water from the tank to the consumer's house. For the project, water treatment plant along with rapid sand filter, pressure filter, and RVT tank for collecting 600 cubic meters of water have been constructed.

Similarly, construction of 300 cubic meter capacity RVT water tank with guard house in Ghorahi-7 Besahi, 300 cubic meter capacity RVT tank and 450 cubic meter overhead tank in Ghorahi-14 Jhingoura, and digging of five deep boring has been completed.

Dharmendra Shrestha, Secretary of the Consumers' Organisation, said that the construction of the water supply project was moving at a fast pace as per the contract agreement with the developer company.

The goal of the organization is to produce 130 to 135 liters of water per second in Ghorahi every day. Devi Bahadur DC, President of the organization, said that after the completion of the project, which is being built with the financial support of the federal government, water will be delivered to the consumers 24 hours every day for about 30 years.

Although there is no water supply problem in Ghorahi now, the project is being worked on considering the problems that may arise in future. 

DC said, "After the implementation of the plan, there won’t be a problem of drinking water even if 10-12 thousand more households are added in Ghorahi." 

The GWSCSO has more than 8,000 customers. The project is scheduled to complete by mid-July next year.