By Our Reporter More than a year after President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the taps of the Melamchi Water Supply Project at Bhrikuti Mandap, the denizens in the Kathmandu Valley has finally received water in their taps. The Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited has resumed distributing water from the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Kathmandu from Sunday. Water Supply Minister Uma Kanta Chaudhary inaugurated the redistribution from the KUKL office in Minbhawan of Kathmandu Sunday morning. Last year, the KUKL has supplied the water for about a month, and shut it for its maintenance works. However, before the maintenance works were over, a massive flood in the Melamchi River on June 21 last year caused a severe damage to the project. The water had arrived at the treatment centre in Sundarijal of Kathmandu last week. According to KUKL spokesperson Prakash Rai, the KUKL branches in Minbhawan, Mahankal and Khumaltar have begun distributing the Melamchi. The KUKL has received just around 50 million litres of water per day now, but it will soon grow to 170 million litres and then, 160,000 consumers will get the supply. It took almost 25 years to complete Melamchi Water Supply Project. It sets an example how slow are the development activities in Nepal. As it took two and a half decades to complete the projects, the costs also increased and reached almost double of the initial estimate of US 464 million dollars. The MWSP was established in 1998 to implement the project. However, works on the project had begun as early as in 1990.