PARBAT: Two remote settlements in Parbat district now have water supply facility with the completion of drinking water supply projects recently.

Purkot of Phalebas Municipality-3 and Luprang of Jaljala Rural Municipality-8 in the district had been facing shortage of drinking water for long.

The people of these two remote settlements had been managing water for daily use, including for drinking, by collecting rain water in earthen drums or bringing water from a rivulet walking for hours.

Water is supplied to 200 households at Purkot through deep boring source at Chamleswara.

The water is pumped up from the source to the settlement on the hilltop where it is stored in a water tank before being distributed.

The water supply project at Purkot was completed at a cost of Rs 40 million.

Similarly, the water supply project at Luprang was constructed at a cost of Rs 10 million.

Water brought in pipe from the Lastikhola rivulet at Banau some four kilometers away is supplied to around 130 houses at Luprang.