Nepal: the world’s second largest country in terms of water resources. Relate that to hydroelectricity, and the country must be overflowing with electricity, right? WRONG! In fact, there the electricity sector is in such a drought that in the dry season, there are power-cuts up to 18 hours per day. Okay, lets do some math. There are 24 hours in a day. Subtract the power-cut hours, and you get 6 hours of electricity per day. In general, we sleep like around 7-8 hours a day? So if you sleep during the 6 hours when the electricity is available, you don’t even get to see the glimpse of electricity for the entire day.
Candles, candles, candles. Candles would be everywhere. In fact, I have had so many candle light dinners that “candle light dinners” aren’t even romantic anymore. Now if you talk about the cost of a candle, a 6 inch candle costs around 5 rupees, and they’d only last for about an hour or so. Each day, about 3-4 were needed, so it would cost around 20 rupees per day, and the power-cuts would last for months!
No TV, no computer, and no guitar. I don’t know how I survived!
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that really is unfortunate! it kinda makes us all seem bad because most of us in America take electricity for granted and not even realize that many countries don't even get much of what we have such easy access to. I LOVE how you said candle light dinners aren't even romantic to you anymore! that is so funny! (not the fact that there is no light haha but that you put it in such terms)
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how I survived the winter in Nepal. I used to sleep whenever there was no electricity.haha
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