Water and Power

Water is becoming a real issue. It isn’t due to rain for another few months and the hydro and town supply lakes are low. Each house has a tank connected to the town supply that should be filled regularly. However, we are getting about 2 hours of water once a week we think. We ran out last week so had to get a tanker to come and give us more. We are very low again now so showers are getting even shorter – think we can both shower in 2 minutes now. As well as the low water the load shedding of the power system has now increased to 11 hours of power cuts a day. Today the power was cut from 5am to 11am and 5pm – 11pm. I’m not complaining as the wedding next door has just lost it’s sound system so the repetitive Nepali music has finished for the day!!! We get power on a Saturday evening but often parties and weddings drain the system so much that there are frequent cuts anyway!!! Surges are frequent and one must use a volt guard on fridges, computers etc. We didn’t bring one so had to get one here. We got the best, most compact locally made one available – check out the photo!!!