Posted on 08 October 2009 by editor
Water project in Taiwan is causing widespread discontent in a local community affected by this month’s Typhoon Morakot. The angry residents of the southern village of Hsiaolin say that a massive government project that diverts water from a river to a local dam has aggravated the already devastating mudslides that have recently killed hundreds of people [...]
Posted on 08 October 2009 by editor
सोमबारदेखिको अविरल बर्षाका कारण पहिरोमा परेर बुधबार १७ जनाको मृत्यु भएको छ। बाढीपहिरोमा परेर दाङ, रुकुम, अछाम र बर्दियामा ९ जना बेपत्ता छन् भने सयौं सर्वसाधारण विस्थापित भएका छन्। यो सँगै पहिरोमा मृत्यु हुनेको संख्या अछाममा २०, बझाङमा ७, डोटीमा २, डडेल्धुरामा १२, बैतडीमा १ सहित ४२ पुगेको छ। पश्चिम, मध्यपश्चिम र सुदूरपश्चिमका अधिकांश क्षेत्रमा यातायात [...]
Posted on 29 May 2009 by editor
After flood in the Koshi River breached the three temporary cofferdams constructed to alter the river’s course on Tuesday night, the Indian contractor has speeded up reconstruction and repair work on the spurs and embankment from Thursday afternoon. Sheetal Babu Regmi, joint secretary at the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR), who is at the Koshi site said, Basistha and Basistha, the Indian contractor has started reconstruction and repair work as the water level in the river started decreasing after rain stopped from Thursday afternoon
Posted on 28 May 2009 by editor
The flooded Koshi River breached all three cofferdams (temporary dams or pilot channels built to alter the Koshi's course during reconstruction of the embankment) on Tuesday night, after the water level rose significantly. The breaching of cofferdams has raised serious threats of Koshi havoc this monsoon as reconstruction and repair is still underway at the Koshi site
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
By Sudheer Raj Sharma Dhakal
The well-versed 750 MW West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) is once again capturing major energy headlines in both the print and electronic media of Nepal. Looked as a porthole for the development of the Far Western Development Region (FWDR) that has received the least development privilege, this project has been lingering for more than a [...]
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