Nepal’s Resource Curse
Recent river disasters are a warning for Nepal not to rely only on hydroelectricity, but what are the energy alternatives?
Recent river disasters are a warning for Nepal not to rely only on hydroelectricity, but what are the energy alternatives?
A scientific team that had gone to assess a monsoon disaster that damaged Nepal’s most expensive infrastructure project northeast of Kathmandu itself had a...
Climate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the Ministry of Water Supply,...
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: original...
Sambhu Kumar Mandal is from Sitamarhi in Bihar. Like hundreds of other migrant workers from India, they have been in Nepal working...
Nepal sits upon a pyramid of problems: poverty, inequality, exclusion, domestic violence, social injustice, lack of food ... the list is long.On top...
Haphazard urbanisation, a continually growing population and long delays in the finalisation of the Melamchi Project have resulted in an increasing water...
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 for Melamchi, Nepal’s biggest and...
The Nepal Communist Party government, with Prime Minister KP Oli at the helm, is nearing two years in office. It has been...