Khunde Water Reservoir
A water reservoir built for Khunde village in 1991, twenty-eight years after the village was first piped water.
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The Himalayan Trust built a water reservoir at Khunde in 1991. Khunde is a Sherpa village in the Khumbu region of Solukhumbu, below Mount Everest, and the site of Khunde Hospital, which Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust opened in 1966.
Khunde's water had first been piped down from Khumbila, the sacred mountain above the village, in 1963. A separate UNICEF pipeline across the same mountain, attempted in the mid-1970s, was swept away by an avalanche within a year. Keeping water running to Khunde has taken repeated work across three decades.