Well, power rationing in Zhejiang province is bound to reduce demand from copper fabricators.

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It now has a new one: the threat of electric power rationing.

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There is also power rationing for Zhejiang homes and office buildings.

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The last time Brazil faced infrastructure problems on this scale was in 2001, when energy shortages led to six months of power cuts and rationing across the country.

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But for the time being power will remain in short supply and rationing and blackouts will continue.

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So they did for the hydro-power companies, which were within days of enforced electricity rationing.

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Kathmandu's residents have learned to live with much more deprivation than fuel rationing--four- to eight-hour power outages daily and an acute shortage of drinking water.

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Brazilians were obliged to cut back their power usage by a fifth under a government led "volunteer" rationing program.

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They need reliable electric power now and they know that they will not get it under the present energy rationing that exists in Japan or in any non-nuclear future possible in the remaining years of this decade.

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