Bagmati River Festival. Bagmati River Festival, organized each August by ムFriends of the Bagmatiメ, that was launched on the occasion of the visit of Prince Philip to Kathmandu in 2000.
DEWATS at Gokarnewswor. Some decentralised treatment systems have been installed for treating waste in the rural stretches of the river, a little before it enters Kathmandu city. One such system is in Gokarna, named after the famous Shiva temple seen in t
Hitis at Patan. The vast sums of money spent, the various engineering interventions, the many city master plans and the instituting of various river commissions have had little or no impact on improving the Bagmati and its tributaries in Kathmandu valley.
Sand mining at Sundarijal. About 50 trucks of sand are excavated daily from Sundarijal area alone. Mining for sand in the river was banned in 1991 after the collapse of the Thapathali bridge in Kathmandu, but sand continues to be gouged out of the riverbe
Water Reservoir - Sundarijal.The Bagmati is not snow-fed; it is a seasonal river. Yet each day, 30 million litres of water is drawn from the riverメs headwaters to supply drinking water to the Kathmandu valley. In the dry seasonsラpre-monsoon summer and p