Less than four weeks remain for the date that was touted as the day when water from the Melamchi river would flow through the taps of Valley’s residences. But although the government has already conceded that it would miss the deadline, it has not been able to offer a new timeframe, putting completion of the much-hyped solution to Kathmandu’s water woes in limbo. On Sunday, local workers of the Italian contractor firm Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti di Ravenna (CMC), which took over the Melamchi Water Supply Projects in July 2013, went on a strike protesting the decision of the company to fire one of them. Company officials said that managing workers was their internal matter.