Water week begins on Mar 17

Friday, 05 March 2010
Kathmandu: The government is all set to celebrate the National Water Week 2010 in March. The twenty-one member National Water Week Organizing Committee 2010 has been formed under the chair of Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS) secretary Kishore Thapa this week.
The committee is comprised of members from different organisations— government as well as non-government— to celebrate the week-long (17-23 March) event titled “Nepal National Water Week 2010” with the theme — Communicating Water Quality, Challenges and Opportunities. “The water week has been designed to commemorate the World Water Day (March 22) and World Meteorological Day (March 23) in order to disseminate the message of the importance of water quality and water scarcity to life and the risk that is growing along with them,” said Dr. Ravi Aryal, Joint Secretary, WECS.


According to Aryal, the main objective of the programme is to raise awareness and sensitize politicians, policy makers, development planners, bureaucrats, environmentalists, researchers, advocacy groups, students and the society as a whole on water quality and proper management and utilization of water.


(Source: The Himalayan Times; the Kathmandu Post; Naya Patrika, March 1, 2010)