KATHMANDU: With the release of Melamchi water from various distribution centers in Kathmandu, Kathmandu denizens finally got the long-awaited water in their taps.
The Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) has started distributing drinking water brought from Melamchi from different places on Sunday afternoon.
Amid a program organized in Chabahil, Kathmandu, Milan Shakya, director of KUKL, Sanjeev Bikram Rana, executive director of Kathmandu Drinking Water Management Board, Umesh Marhatta, chief of KUKL’s Mahankal Chaur Branch and Satish Dutta, chief of Drinking Water Operations Department, released the water by turning on the keys at 2 pm today.
KUKL source informed that the Melamchi water has been distributed from various water distribution centers from Sunday. “We distributed drinking water channeled to Kathmandu from Melamchi today. The distribution has started from KUKL’s Mahankal Chaur, Chabahil based wate distribution center, at 2 pm,” KUKL source said.
The water of Melamchi was discharged into the Sundarijal Water Treatment Plant on March 6 through a 26-kilometer long tunnel.
Melamchi project first started as the dream project of then Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai in 1991.
The Melamchi Drinking Water Project was started in the fiscal year 1998/99.
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