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Download fileHost and refugee population cooperation: case of Dumse water supply and sanitation project, Damak-5, Nepal
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Prabesh Paudyal, Murray BurtUNHCR promotes the use of technology and solutions with low long term operational cost and in line
with the Sustainable Development Goals. UNHCR advocates for refugees’ access to local services, and
mainstreaming the management of refugee WASH services into local structures. In Nepal, Bhutanese
refugees have been hosted in settlements in the forest areas of Jhapa and Morang for more than 24 years.
In the past, water was provided from boreholes equipped with electric pumps powered by diesel
generators. The cost of operating the diesel generators was high and unsustainable without ongoing
support from UNHCR. This paper presents a ‘best practice’ case study describing the development of a
new sustainable, low cost gravity flow water system, shared by refugees and host community, and
mainstreamed into local structures.
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