The Kathmandu Valley's Water Systems: Ancient Engineering
Long before modern plumbing, the Kathmandu Valley was crisscrossed with intricate stone channels called hitis, built by the Malla kings and earlier Licchavi rulers. These public water spouts, fed by underground aqueducts that could run for kilometers, supplied every neighborhood with clean water. This episode follows the story of one such system — the 5th-century Dhunge Dhara of Hadigaon — and how it worked without pumps, filtration, or electricity. We explore the engineering principles, the social organization that maintained them, and the slow decline as British-style tap water arrived in the 1890s under the Ranas. Along the way, we meet the stone masons who still repair them, the colonial engineers who dismissed them as primitive, and the modern activists fighting to preserve them. A quiet history of water, stone, and community in the shadow of the Himalayas.
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