The tunnel head of the controversial Melamchi Water Supply project. Launched three decades back, the ADB-sponsored $464 million project will divert 170 mld of water from snow-fed Melamchi river in Helambu to Sundarijal through a 26 km-long tunnel. A conso
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
Stonespouts/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 Kathm
Stonespouts Patan. 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 i
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 riverï¾’s headwaters to supply drinking water to the Kathmandu valley. In the dry seasonsï¾—pre-monsoon summer and p