Water shortages,a bitterly cold winter, the aftermath of a border blockade with India and tardy reconstruction efforts are compounding the desperate plight of people who survived final year’s earthquakes in Nepal It is an hour before dawn, or on the slopes below Barkobot village in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district,a small crowd of women are already waiting to fill up their water pots from a single plastic hose. It will be a lengthy interlude.
After the massive earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April final year, the main water source in the village dried up. Since then, or people have had to rely on a slender pipe as their chief source of drinking water,but all that comes out is a thin trickle. It takes nearly an hour to fill a 20-litre pot.
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Source: theguardian.com