Nepal has increased load-shedding to 74 hours starting on Wednesday due to rapid decrease of water level in rivers.
As per the new schedule to be effective from on Wednesday , there would be 11 hours of load-shedding for four days and 10 hours for the rest three days every week.
Nepal electricity authority (NEA), a government entity, has imposed up to 11 hours power outage per day due to decrease of water level in the country's rivers, according to officials.
The NEA had imposed 54 hours load shedding per week since mid-December.
Nepal's energy minister Prakash Sharan Mahat said that the load shedding could climb up to 14 hour a day after mid-February due to reduction of water levels in rivers generating electricity.