Climate Change Drying up the Water Sources in Nauli Village
Nauli is a small settlement situated in Dadeldhura District in Far-Western Nepal. It is a very remote village, which one has to reach by foot. Especially during rainy season, it can take up to four hours to reach the village from the nearest road. Nauli is mostly a magar community, with 26 out of the 32 households being magar. It is a very traditional community, where the villagers are earning their living through traditional farming and goat rearing. Drinking water from a tr
Increasing Women's Independence Through Commercial Vegetable Farming
In the remote village of Chamgaun in Mastamandu VDC in Dadeldhura district, before the Rural Village Water Resources Management Project interventions, the women of the village used to fetch water from traditional water resources (Naulo), more than an hour walking from their houses. Due to the contamination of water, the people in the village suffered from different waterborne diseases such as diarrhoea. They didn’t have any sources of water for irrigation and only a few seaso
