Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting / Salyan and Dailekh, Nepal
3R WUMP module development - Nepal
Situation with water supply and food security
Helvetas SI Nepal has developed and implemented a plan to address water management issues in a participatory and integrated manner. The Water Use Master Plan (WUMP) is a tool that puts the local community at the centre of decisions and that looks at water resources, water demands and potential uses in a broad and integrating way, including a prioritized list of water-related infrastructure plans. The tool has proved to be successful and is being replicated by a number of organisations in Nepal and has the interest of the government as well (DoLIDAR).
Although the experiences so far have been very positive, some challenges have been identified: WUMP should address water productivity in agriculture more prominently and should pay more attention to climate change effects. Through its collaboration with RAIN, Helvetas SI Nepal considers that by putting rainwater harvesting more to the forefront, and by incorporating a catchment perspective with a 3R approach into the current WUMP, these issues can be addressed.
