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, ...

Despite recent achievements in bringing water to a growing percentage of the population, Nepal continues to suffer from a water crisis, with many people still unable to access to clean water sources.

WWF report “Nepal – Water Risk Scenarios and Opportunities for Resilient Development” highlights the current and future risks to Nepal’s water resources. Kathmandu, Nepal – A unique 18-month process ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nepal Police rescue villagers in Kailali district parts of which were flooded following a heavy rainfall. All photos: RSS Those drawing attention to the water crisis in Nepal usually focus on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local communities often leave their domestic water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) in the wild to breed with wild water buffalos as they believe that hybrid females produce more milk than other ...