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"Tajik Energy Ministry spokesman Nozir Yodgorov announced on 4 October new measures rationing electricity supplies, ITAR-TASS and Asia-Plus reported. The measures are to be introduced in all regions except the capital Dushanbe and seek to curb the country's rising electricity consumption. The rationing, to be effective immediately and lasting through April 2006, will result in the supply of daily electrical power being reduced to 10 hours -- five hours of electricity in the morning and five in the evening. In addition to curbing rising consumption, the move also stems from a decline in the water level in the country's reservoirs powering the main hydroelectric power plants." From RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 9, No. 188, Part I, 5 October 2005