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‘Mahajalayatra’ organized to promote Bagmati heritage and cleanliness

“Mahajalayatra” was held today in Bagmati river by Nepal Association of Rafting Agencies (NARA) which has been conducting this festival every year. Activities such as rafting were observed. Bagmati River Festival 2023 was started at 7 am from the riverbank in Kupondole. According to the organizers, the festival was organized with the aim of promoting […]

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Coordinated initiative launched to relocate human settlements along Kathmandu’s river corridors

To address the issues surrounding human settlements along the river corridors in the Kathmandu Valley, the Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated a coordinated approach. During a meeting led by Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha on Monday, the heads and officials of relevant ministries and agencies concluded that collaborative action is

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A green transformation towards healing Bagmati

Is the Bagmati healing?

In 2016, two Danish students, Oskar Frelin and Jens Hansen Holm spent several months in Nepal, studying the Bagmati River as a part of their master’s theseis in landscape architecture. Their thesis, Healing Bagmati proposed a green transformation of Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, specifically from Manohara to Bishnumati – a vision of what the

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Bagmati river polluted throughout the Valley

Troubled Waters

Photo Story by Nishant Singh Gurung Not so long ago, children swam in the clean, cool waters of the Bagmati River. Today, such an act is unfathomable. In the last few decades, the once cherished Bagmati has been transformed into a noxious waterway put under assault by the constant flow of untreated waste from Kathmandu

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Wastewater pathways leads towards valley's river

A Look Down the Drain

By Kunga Zhoennu Gurung and Trisha Dhakal The population of the Kathmandu Valley is estimated to be growing at a rate of 4% per year. The unprecedented explosion of residents has not been followed by new investments in infrastructure, and the existing framework for supporting urban life is under immense pressure. Poor city planning and

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Where Do Your Poop and Household Wastewater Go?

By: Somi Panday One of the most brilliant interventions in human history is arguably an unexpected one: the toilet. We use it every day with hardly a second thought for what lies beyond the shadowy pipe we see when we peer down our commodes. Out of all the types of waste society produces, perhaps the

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