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Wait Another Four Years For Water From Melamchi River
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 13, 2012: if Nepalis were to believe the former Interim Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhatarai, Nepalis would have water from the Melamchi River even in the 1990s, and the people in the Kathmandu Valley would not need to wait for a whole week to receive once-a-week water supply. However, thanks to the administration of the so-called Democratic Party: NC, Nepalis had been denied drinking water for decades because of the transparent corruption practiced by the NC ministers.
However, the current coalition government of the UCPN-Maoist and the UDMF has been pushing hard to complete the Melamchi Drinking Water Project despite the corruption-prone NC and CPN-UML leaders have been dragging the government to a controversy in the bid for grabbing the power.
According to the state-run news agency: RSS, the Ministry of Urban Development has yesterday released a white paper stating the Melamchi Project would be ready by 2016, and then would start off providing the Kathmandu Valley with 510 million liters of water every day. However, improvement of the distribution system would start off only in 2016 and completed in 2025. So, the people in the Kathmandu Valley might get the water from the Melamchi Project but they might need to wait for decades before they would have sufficient water.
