For the country where only 15 per cent of its population have access to electricity, Nepal has come a long way. It took 84 years to achieve power generation of 250 megawatt. And only five years to add a whopping 125 megawatt through microhydels, an incr

The focus is on development of hydropower, industries and food production: how sustainably can the targets be achieved?

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

It s not about fighting the problem later, it s about pre empting the problem. Measures against air pollution and plastics are all about taking proactive measures

It is an intriguing view from the high mountains of Bhutan. To the east lies Nepal, grappling large scale environmental degradation. To the north and south, China and India, overwhelmed by the pressure of 2 billion people. Several examples of what Bhutan

india and Nepal have decided to work more closely towards taming the numerous rivers originating from Nepal and passing through India to control annual flooding of the Indo-Gangetic plains.

Bhutan's biggest revenue earner, the Chukha Hydro Power Corporation (CHPC) produced a record 1,943.741 million units (Mu) of power in 1999, exceeding its previous year's production by 163 Mu. "We

the Canadian states, Quebec and Newfoundland, have declared that plans for a huge hydro-electric project in the Churchill Falls region of Labrador would be delayed to meet the demand of Canadian

The fate of the

Private companies investing in dams is bad news for the environment

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