{"id":2085,"date":"2020-01-30T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/30\/'one-house-one-tap'-campaign-gains-ground-in-biratnagar\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T03:23:00","slug":"one-house-one-tap-campaign-gains-ground-in-biratnagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/30\/one-house-one-tap-campaign-gains-ground-in-biratnagar\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;One house-one tap&#8217; campaign gains ground in Biratnagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biratnagar metropolis is materializing &#8216;one house, one tap&#8217; campaign to make drinking water available to the municipal dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>The metropolis in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Nepal Drinking Water Corporation has accomplished project related study and research in various phases.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the metropolis is expected to materialize the denizens&#8217; dream of &#8216;one home-one tap&#8217; within some years.<\/p>\n<p>Biratnagar mayor Bhim Parajuli took the leadership to expedite the initiative from the very beginning. In connection with the plan, the first-phase detailed project report and progress reports prepared by JICA were presented on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The metropolis and JICA&#8217;s consultant Yachiyo Engineering Corporation Limited jointly accomplished the task.<\/p>\n<p>A four-member delegation headed by representative of JICA head office Yosiaki Yokota and Hirosi Kuwota has initiated its preparatory works in Biratnagar.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that he has a dream to provide metropolitan denizens pure drinking as part of his campaign &#8216;one house, one tap&#8217;, mayor Parajuli said his team has concentrated its all-out efforts with confidence to that end.<\/p>\n<p>The drinking water pipes which were installed more than 60-years are in dire straits. The denizens have been compelled to drink sub-standard water in some places due to unrepaired condition of the pipes.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that 13 locals had lost their life in Biratnagar because of jaundice that was believably broken out with the consumption of impure water.<\/p>\n<p>Biratnagar&#8217;s Chief Administrative Officer Ekdev Adhikari called for all sides to expedite the tasks to materialize the plan of distributing pure drinking water to the households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biratnagar metropolis is materializing &#8216;one house, one tap&#8217; campaign to make drinking water available to the municipal dwellers. The metropolis in collaboration with the Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[336,330],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biratnagar","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}