KUKL urged to supply water twice a week

KATHMANDU, March 7: Constituent Assembly (CA) member Nabindra Raj Joshi on Friday asked the Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) to distribute drinking water at least twice a week.

 

Joshi, accompanied by more than four dozens party cadres and consumers, reached the KUKL´s head office to convey the problems faced by water-starved consumers to the authority.

"Listening to the grievances about drinking water has become part of my daily routine," he said. "I have asked the officials to distribute water at least twice a week in the areas where water does not reach through KUKL supply line and also find ways to increase the quantity," he added. Joshi has also demanded that the KUKL publish water distribution schedule and hotline numbers.

Other concerns raised by Joshi in a letter submitted to the KUKL include formation of special units to respond to public grievances, stopping leakage and improving the quality of drinking water. In the letter, Joshi has also urged the KUKL authority to conserve historical stone spouts and wells.

He also inquired about present status of water production and efforts made by the officials to explore new sources to increasing production. He assured the officials help from the government in their efforts.

Water-starved consumers have started to throng KUKL´s main office to complain about water crisis. Due to increasing hours of load shedding and dry season, production of drinking water has been shrinking. Consumers have to wait more than 10 days to collect drinking water. The distribution section of KUKL said that growing power cut has paralyzed the production capacity of its deep tube wells.

The KUKL said that demand for drinking water in the valley is over 360 million liters per day, whereas production hardly reaches 100 million liters in the dry season.

Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=70659

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