Tag: #groundwater
Articles tagged with #groundwater
Storing rain inside mountains
Scenic Dhankuta revives traditional water management practices to boost ecotourism
Climate breakdown magnifies western Nepal’s woes
Parched by heatwave and drought, Western Nepal is running out of water
Nepal’s other pandemic: cancer
Uma Kumari Sah with her grandmother.It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy…
In Nepal’s weather, erratic is the new normal
Photo: UN-Habitat, the Center for Integrated Urban Development, and Lalitpur Metropolitan CityThe 2019 monsoon was an erratic one. Sadly,…
Nepal must keep water on its land
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them
Where is the monsoon this year?
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAIn January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to…
Project Dragonfly
GOING GOING GONE: A female of the new dragonfly species Microgomphus phewataali discovered last year in Pokhara by naturalists Karen Conniff and…
Energy saving Soaltee
Known for its pioneering role in high-end tourism in Nepal since the 1960s with its five-star Soaltee property in Kathmandu, the group has taken…