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Thirsty gewog sees hope of water

7 February 2010

 

 The drinking water short­age in Nangla Gewog in Panbang Dungkhag will become a thing of the past by June with works on water supply almost complete.

The water supply scheme will benefit some 64 house­holds – 42 in Sonamthang village, 18 in Morangdut, and four in Pongling village.

Materials for the construc­tion are supplied by the gov­ernment under Rural Water Supply Scheme (RWSS) and households collect local ma­terials like sand and stones and contribute labour.

According to Yeshey Chopy­el, a technician for RWSS in Zhemgang, about Nu 1.5 mil­lion has been spent. He said many villages do not have a water source nearby. “The water source for Pongshing is three hours walk downhill from the village, and pump­ing water up will be costly,” he said.

There is shortage of drink­ing water in most of the vil­lages in Pangbang Dungkhag. Cheki Wangchuk, a farmer from Sonamthang village, said the village had had drink­ing water shortage for the last 10 years. He said there had been many promises of water supply. But when they mobi­lised construction materials, the projects were delayed. He is happy that it is finally ma­terialising.

“We walk for an hour to reach the nearest spring to fetch drinking water,” Tashi Tshering said, adding that it “hampered a lot of domestic works”.

Meanwhile, Tobgay from Thinleygang A, said last year there were talks about RWSS project in his village. “Villag­ers collected construction materials but the project was never implemented,” he said. Farmers lost all the sand to monsoon rains.

Dzongkhag officials said Thinleygang A is included in a 2011 project.

People from Tendudepma and Rigpati said they too had been facing drinking wa­ter shortage for the past few years

By Rabi C Dahal

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