Nepal Tubewell Irrigation: What the Groundwater Resources Development Board Reports

Nepal Tubewell Irrigation: What the Groundwater Resources Development Board Reports

Summary of the home page of Nepal's Groundwater Resources Development Board (GWRDB). Only stated points are included.

• GWRDB was established by the Government of Nepal in 1976 to enhance groundwater study and to delineate areas with potential for groundwater irrigation. Groundwater activities started "as early as" 1967 through a technical unit under the Department of Irrigation.
• The page credits the Groundwater Resources Development Project (GWRDP), not the board itself, with annual water quality analysis in Terai districts and geophysical studies (mostly resistivity) to delineate shallow and deep aquifers.
• The Community Shallow Tubewell Irrigation Project, funded by an IFAD loan, covered drought- and flood-affected Terai districts: Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha, Sarlahi and Rautahat.
• The Bhairahwa Lumbini Groundwater Project, funded by a World Bank loan and started in Rupandehi in FY 1976/77, built 181 deep tubewells and irrigated 20,309 hectares.

Not verified: current tubewell permit rules, pump types, energy supply and costs; the page does not cover them.

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