CLIMATE CHANGE & ACCESS TO SAFE WATER -

A NEPALESE PERSPECTIVE

Jaya Jung MAHATMaster’s in Social Work (MSW) Student/ St. Xavier’s College

Coordinator/ ClimateHimalaya Initiative

Presentation Outline

Some bitter Realities/ Facts

Case Studies Challenges

Group Work Personal

Contributions

Still Video

Some Facts about Climate

Change and its Impacts

Over the past 100 years, the average temperature of the earth’s surface has increased by 0.74 Degree Centigrade (IPCC/2007)The extreme weather events caused by Climate Change are often responsible for physical injury and loss of life and people to many vulnerable diseases (UNDP/ 2007)

Between 1980 – 2007, 98 % of those affected by natural disasters were victims of climate-change related events (Ganeshan & Diamond/2009)

Potable water supplies will come under growing pressure as the warming temperature associated with Climate Change increase water pollution from bacterial growth and algal blooms (IPCC/2007)

Climate Change will continue to affect all aspects of food security (FAO/2008)

Water scarcity impacts on health, food availability & people’ condition of living (ADB/2001)

The lack of easy access to water accentuates the hardships of the poor. The urban poor in densely populated cities of Nepal queue at public standpoints to access limited water amount (ADB/2001)

Widespread water pollution resulting from Climate Change has resulted in increased water scarcity, poorer public health, lower agricultural production, declining quality of aquatic animals (ADB/ 2001)

Climate Change and its impacts on availability of access to safe water will hinder the developing nations to meet the MDGs.

In rural Nepal many village people, mainly women & female children, still walk several kilometers over hills to fetch water (ADB/ 2001)

Case Studies

The Voices of Climate Change Victims

POKHARA (Western Nepal)

JHAPA(Eastern Nepal)

JIRI(Northern Nepal)

GORKHA (North-Western Nepal)

MAKAWANPUR(Southern Nepal)

PHARPING(Kathmandu)

Challenges for

ACTION

Hierarchy of Needs

About 700 Nepalese Youths leave from Nepal in one day for foreign employment via TIA (Recorded Cases)

Ladder of Participation

My InterventionTechniques

Urban Rain Water Collection Center

Rural Rain Water Collection Tank

The Living Energy Museum

Water Reservoir P. Generation House

Information Dissemination

The Cover page of the July-August issues of the first French Journal in Nepal published by the Alliance Française of Kathmandu, NEPAL

Awareness Building

Portraying via ART

“Don’t do NOTHING because you can’t do EVERYTHING. Do

SOMETHING…. ANYTHING” – Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“I'm trying accomplish that SOMETHING…. But yet to achieve that ANYTHING……Still I have a lot to DO”

THANK YOU

If not

Now….When?

If not

Here….Where?

If not

Me….WHO????

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