Sri Lanka imposes daily 2-hour power cuts

Electricity   Electricity
By The Associated Press on August 13, 2012

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Daily power cuts of more than two hours are being imposed across Sri Lanka because of a drought and problems at a coal-fired generating plant.

Ceylon Electricity Board Vice Chairman Anura Wijayapala says officials will decide on Wednesday whether to lengthen the outages, which began last week.

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