Recent river disasters are a warning for Nepal not to rely only on hydroelectricity, but what are the energy alternatives?
The Bhemthang sediment field this week after the snowstorm, and in July after the flashflood (pictured below). Photos: SONAM LAMA and SHIVA…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITClimate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the…
Exploring Nepal’s largest river during a destructive monsoon
Before and after interactive map of Melamchi Bazar and the confluence of the Indrawati-Melamchi rivers. Image on right on 20 June. Source:…
Sambhu Kumar Mandal and dozens of his colleagues have been in Sindhupalchok working on reconstruction after the 2015 earthquake. All photos:…
Mahendra Shrestha, 61, of Melamchi Bazar breaks down as he surveys the damage to his house on Wednesday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepal sits upon a…
Photo: SONIA AWALEHaphazard urbanisation, a continually growing population and long delays in the finalisation of the Melamchi Project have…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdbmBlnVZI&feature=youtu.beNearly 25 years after it was first mooted, there is light at the end of the tunnel…
DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe Nepal Communist Party government, with Prime Minister KP Oli at the helm, is nearing two years in office. It has been taken…
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking…
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILet us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the…
Kunda DixitBikash Thapa in Annapurna Post, 24 DecemberJust as the much-delayed Melamchi water supply project neared completion with 90% of its…
After ten years of blood and 12 years of trying to come to terms with why it was shed, Nepalis had great hopes for 2018.Last year this time,…
Kunda DixitA drain in the middle of the road outside the gates of a school in Kirtipur had its concrete slabs removed for maintenance six months…
