Climate change is impacting Nepal’s economy, health and communities in diverse ways. Rising temperatures are responsible for the glacier melt as well as shift in precipitation pattern. Changes in the climatology of ...

tn the recent past, in many developing tropical countries a good deal of research has been carried out to solve the problems of 'large basins' whereas not much has been done with regard to the hydrologic problems of small ...

The growth of human population often corresponds with change in land use, including expansion of urban areas, which necessitates increasing the available amount of drinking water. As the surface water sources are more ...

Comprehensive river basin water resources planning is a complex and very difficult task posing numerous social, economic, environmental, and engineering problems. While planning for the development of a big river basin ...

Climate change has been attracting global attention at an ever-increasing rate over the last two decades. Given the far-reaching impacts of climate change on the status of lifeon earth as a whole, as understood from ...

Water quality is closely linked to water use and directly or indirectly to the state of economic development of a country. The many ways in which water promotes the general welfare of the society are known as beneficial ...

Flood frequency analysis is one of the most active areas of hydrological research. In the past, efforts have been mainly concentrated on the statistical analysis of available flood data. Statistical flood frequency methods ...

The estimation of flood magnitude corresponding to a selected return period is one of the most common problems being faced by the hydrologists. The problem becomes more serious, when there are no flood records at the ...

The Indian Himalayas, the originating point of many important rivers, plays a vital role in controlling the weather of India. Despite this fact, the climate of Indian Himalayas is less studied because of its inaccessibility ...

Water is known as the most precious gift of nature for growth of civilization as well as a destructive element causing mass devastation. Flood hazards have become ever increasing natural disasters resulting in the highest ...