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This paper proposes a new model to develop small hydropower on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, by developing one small hydro project in a district under the auspices of local institutions such as the District Development Committee (DDC), Village Development Committee (VDC), municipality, etc., in partnership with an entrepreneur or the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce...
Meet Mr. Odd Hoftun, a Norwegian who came to Nepal over 40 years ago and has made himself invaluable to Nepal’s hydroelectricity development. So much so that after living here in Nepal for nearly 40 years Mr. Odd Hoftun was awarded Honorary Citizenship, in recognition of his sterling efforts. The following article will introduce you to the man and his thoughts about hydroelectricity...
The proposed 195 metre high concrete faced rockfil dam (one of the highest of its kind) in West Seti Hydroelectric Project in Nepal will impound 1,500 million cubic meters of water. High CFRD dams were only recently constructed since 1980s. Nepal's Ministry of Energy must constitute a panel of experts of high standing in the field of dam/river engineering to seek their advice on the West Seti...
The proposed West Seti Hydroelectric Project, 750 MW, is one of the best projects of its genre, because it will not only generate peak-in energy and good quality power but because it will do so at low cost and, furthermore, its implementation will result in flood control and dry season augmented flow for lower riparian areas. Moreover, export of hydropower to India from this project will...
In Nepal, Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMISs) dominate the number and the irrigated area. They were built and managed by farmers themselves for centuries. The main objective of this paper was to analyse the factors that made thes FMISs function well for so long. FMISs communities have indigenous but ultra-modern knowledge of layout, construction, management, ecology and hydrology....
The present communication is a part of survey being conducted to study the fresh water algal flora of Namchi, South Sikkim. Thirteen taxa of class Chlorophyceae, which include 8 genera, 10 species and 3 varieties, were identified from 6 samples. Spirogyra nitida (Dillw.) Link, Netrium digitus (Ehr.) Itzigs. and Roth. and Scenedesmus bijugatus (Turp.) Kuetz. were the...
Known as "Simsar" in Nepal, wetlands are those areas which lie between the land and deepwater and remian waterlogged or submerged under water, seasonally or throughout the year. Generally the land is so muddy that one cannot easily walk over it, and water is so deep that one can neither swim nor get drowned. River floodplains, shallow margins of lakes and reservoirs, shallow and seasonal ponds...
The mesoscale snow distribution over the Namco lake area of the Tibetan Plateau on October 2005 has been investigated in this paper. The base and revised experiments were conducted using the Weather Research Model (WRF) with three nested grids that included a 1 km finest grid centred on the Namco station. Our simulation ran from 6 October through to 10 October 2005,...
This paper describes an extreme flood event that occurred in the South Pare Mountains in northern Tanzania. A high spatial and temporal resolution data set has been gathered in a previously ungauged catchment. This data was analysed using a multi-method approach, to gather information about the processes that generated the flood event. On 1 March 2006, extreme...
The controls on the spatial distribution of soil moisture include static and dynamic variables. The superposition of static and dynamic controls can lead to different soil moisture patterns for a given catchment during wetting, draining, and drying periods. These relationships can be further complicated in snow-dominated mountain regions where soil water input by precipitation is largely...
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