IN our edition yesterday we carried a story headlined “Power blackouts raise water crisis” where city and town councils across the country lamented that intermittent electricity cuts were affecting potable water availability. Without electricity, the councils cannot pump water to residents and if they use alternative power sources, generators for example, they incur heavy unbudgeted…

Citizens are angry over the nation’s record power cuts, and politicians are seeking to deflect blame for a crisis that’s been a quarter century in the making.
