Kathmandu. Madhes province is currently suffering from drought. Paddy has not been sown due to lack of rain and there is also a shortage of drinking water.

The sources of water in the Terai are wells, wells and chapakals. All three traditional systems have become useless due to which the water crisis has intensified. Although the local and provincial governments have started distributing water to the settlements through fire engines and tankers to avoid the drinking water crisis, it has not been so effective.

Among them, the villages of various municipalities of Mahottari district have been facing acute shortage of drinking water. Locals of 10 wards of Manarashiswa municipality of the district are facing drinking water crisis.

Ram Pravesh Mahara, a local, said that all the chapakals, wells and wells of Chauriya tole located in the municipality-1 have dried up. He said that he had to depend on the water distributed by the municipality for cooking to drink water.

Gagan Dev Yadav, a local, said that sometimes the tanker comes around 11:12 pm and then they have to get up and fill the water. Locals have expressed some relief after the deep boring inside the Janata Secondary School area in the same municipality-5 was opened for the locals.

Photo: Prakash Chandra Timilsina/ Nepal Photo Library.