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Kathmandu wastewater: the way forward?

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:10 authored by Darryl Jackson, Raja R. Shrestha
Kathmandu’s urban population will grow from 2.6 million to 4.4 million in 2025. Its current wastewater system barely copes. A masterplan developed in 2009/10 proposes a series of actions to improve its performance with a mix of on-site and off-systems. As with many urban centres, the success of this plan is dependent on numerous external factors. In particular, land prices and land availability for decentralised systems, and treatment technologies were major constraints. The current wastewater status the 2025 vision, a problem tree analysis, together with issues and assumptions identified in the masterplan are presented. The paper concludes with a reflective view of the process adopted, with reference to Strategic Sanitation Approaches and the Sanitation 21 agenda and considers if and how the study may have achieved different outcomes using these principles.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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WEDC Conference

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JACKSON, D. and SHRESTHA, R.R., 2011. Kathmandu wastewater: the way forward?. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). The future of water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income countries - Innovation, adaptation and engagement in a changing world: Proceedings of the 35th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 6-8 July 2011, 4p.p.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2011

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:13547

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  • en

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