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For centuries, the waters of the more than 6000 big and small rivers of Nepal have been harnessed to power traditional water mills, the ghattas. There are about 25,000 such ghattas operating in the country, hut attention is shifting to electrification.
Altogether 70 micro-hydro private sector turbines have been set up in 58 districts of Nepal. Eight of these are owned by small farmers groups, the rest by individual entrepreneurs. Together, the turbines generate about 700 kW of electricity and light up about 3,000 households.