For the last one-week, a Gairigaon villager in Sergithang, Tsirang, his neighbour and four labourers have been working to connect clean drinking water to his home.
Nim Dorji, 40, said he never thought he could connect his home with drinking water.
He said he and his family suffer from diarrhoea several times a year.
Their family became serious about drinking boiled water after Nim’s wife got typhoid.
With new water taps constructed, he said he is eager to drink from clean pipes.
The rural water supply scheme (RWSS) project connecting Nim and his neighbour’s home with piped water would complete in about four days.
“Our taps are dry most of the time.
The water drawn from the river was first collected in a tank (Alay tank) and then supplied to Tsirangtoed Primary School, the only beneficiary then.
The chairman of the water committee, Tshering Dorji, said the water collected at Alay tank through the old pipeline from Paw River is shared through three outlets today.
“The water supply to Tsirangtoed and Kapasey is shared with Soentabsa village on the way.” He said the water drawn from the source is already scarce and the local line is shared on the way.