Nepal, June 17 -- Nepalis have long struggled to access safe drinking water despite successive governments' pledge to provide quality water through initiatives like the "One House, One Tap" national campaign and regular supply of the much-anticipated Melamchi Drinking Water Project in the Kathmandu Valley. Yet the project's stop-start supply has forced Kathmanduities to rely on jarred and public tap water. As jarred and bottled water are considered safe, they are preferred in public places, households, schools and offices. However, come monsoon, even these so-called purified water containers are contaminated with harmful microbes, pathogens and minerals. The monsoon has just started, and the National Public Health Laboratory-the health mi...