DHANGADHI: Irregular water supply has hardly hit the residents of Dhangadi Municipality. The acute short supply of water, a result of Nepal Water Supply Corporation’s (NWSC) glaring inefficiency, has affected thousands of households in the district.

Some locals complained that NWSC had done nothing to fix the problem.

“I have been storing water in a reservoir as water supply is erratic,” Jyoti Prakash Joshi of Santoshi Tole in Dhangadhi-2 said.

Another local, Krishna Bhattarai, said, “ Though NWSC used to supply water round the clock, it is only occasional now,” adding, “though I pay monthly bills of Rs 80 to the Nepal Water Supply Corporation, I have to manage drinking water from a hand pump.”

Though NWSC has water tanks with the capacity of more than 350000 litres, water is not supplied to the consumers regularly. Only a few consumers nearby the tanks are fortunate to avail themselves of regular water supply, locals said.

“As NWSC staffers are not serious about fixing the water supply problems, we facing the shortage of the drinking water,” Bijaynand Saud, a consumer from Taranagar, said. However, NWSC staffers attributed the problem to the extended hours of load-shedding. “We are not able to fill up tanks due to load-shedding.”

Ambar Bahadur Bista, an NWSC staffer said that the problem could be solved if the central office provided them with two boring machines and funds to construct new water tanks.