Kathmandu's residents have learned to live with much more deprivation than fuel rationing--four- to eight-hour power outages daily and an acute shortage of drinking water.

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Yet there is a shortage of safe water for drinking and sanitation in many places, not least in the cities to which so many people are now flocking.

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The protesters from the nearby community of Mareniyoc blame the mining company for a worsening water shortage and demand the firm supply them with drinking water.

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