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Paros Water Wars

The people of Paro are busy battling and sabotaging each other's community water supply systems over disputes on an increasingly scarce drinking and irrigation water supply. Representatives of people from the three gewogs of Dopshari, Doteng and Lango are in the Thimphu high court over the former two's refusal to share their excess water with Lango even on government orders. In between, even the newly constructed concrete water tank and iron pipes for Lango were demolished with patangs and hammers overnight. In Dogar gewog, a water supply pipeline was also cut and destroyed.