An MIT project that aims to help provide clean drinking water for people in developing countries began with an extraordinary conference whose participants included an MIT engineer, the queen of Nepal, ...

Nepal’s diverse climate and topography favors a maximum number of species in such a small area, but this biodiversity is threatened by a climate induced water crisis. For a country that occupies only ...

Climate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the Ministry of Water Supply, who pioneered inter-basin water transfer and ...

Twenty people have died from water-borne diseases while more than 400 cases of acute watery diarrhea have been recorded so far this year in Nepal, according to IRIN. While the South Asian country has ...

As Nepal’s plains face severe drought, communities are building artificial ponds to cope with water shortages for drinking, irrigation and other uses. The ponds are becoming popular as a “nature-based ...

Kathmandu, May 28 -- Testing of drinking water samples collected about a month ago from various places of Kathmandu district ...

The government recently told the parliament that it would soon lay the foundation stone for the 1,200- MW Budhigandaki Hydroelectric Project(BGHEP). The BGHEP facility is a good choice to serve the ...

Sun Koshi River is blocked, 156 people are dead, and 10 percent of Nepal’s hydropower capacity is cut off. The deadliest landslide in Nepal in a decade is raising fresh questions about the country’s ...

When 38-year-old Pradeep Kumar Bishwokarma was growing up in Ramgadhawa, a neighbourhood in southern Nepal’s industrial town of Birgunj, he would jump into the Sirsiya river to beat the summer heat as ...