Not a drop to drink: Residents of the Nakhipot area in Lalitpur walk with empty vessels on their backs to collect drinking water from a nearby public spout. The demand for water in Kathmandu Valley was 430 million liters a day but the supply was only 80 million liters before the 170-million-liter-a-day Melamchi project came online. But Melamchi has been shut down since June following heavy flooding in project area | Bikesh Shakya

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