Sunday, 28th March 2010
Sankhuwasabha: A litre of unpurified water is being sold at Rs.1 at Khandbari following the acute shortage of drinking water hit the area. The Sushma Construction has been selling the unpurified drinking water, which is directly taken from the Shaba and Arun River.
From the past few years, the locals of Khandbari have been suffering from tremendous scarcity of the drinking water so from this year the Kriti Swastika Construction has started to provide the drinking water to the locals. As the problems of water tremendously spiralled, the employees of Sutlez Company who has got the contract of constructing the Arun Third Hydropower Project, and local Bhim Nepali have been found selling the unpurified drinking water at Rs.1 per litre.
Construction Manager, Kiranbabu Udas, stated that they started the selling of water after the water scarcity was seen at Khandbari. According to the construction, daily 500 liters was being sold to the locals of Khandbari. He informed that at first they brought water from the Malta River but as the water was not sufficient for the Khandbari locals, they had started to bring additional water from the Arun and Shaba River.
The Khandbari Municipality that has the responsibility for supplying drinking water of Khandbari has failed to manage water in the municipality. It said that it failed to supply water to the locals as it had no resource to carry water from. But the consumers of Khandbari claimed that though the drinking water was being wasted at the street, the Municipality couldn’t manage the water for the area.
Technician of the Khandbari Municipality informed that at first around 100 water taps were installed at Khandbari on the basis of the distribution of the census of the area which was taken around ten years ago. According to the recent data, total 800 water taps have been installed at the municipality but the scarcity is increasing every passing day at Khandbari.
(Source: The Rising Nepal, March 23, 2010)
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