Nepal: Water Rights on the Kosi River
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Non Profit
A poor nation in which only 27 percent of citizens have access to proper sanitation and daily blackouts last for 16-hour intervals, Nepal is set to emerge as the hydropower center of Asia. Along with other countries, multinational corporations and international investment banks, Nepal is exploring opportunities to provide for its own power needs as well as those of its neighbors - opportunities that come with conflict, and winners and losers. For Nepal hydropower holds the promise of immense wealth and political power, but this is tempered by dams that displace villages and cropland. One point of conflict lies between Nepal and the Indian border state of Bihar. It is here, where the Kosi River flows, that water rights issues come into play.
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