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The Ganges Basin is a major part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. On the west the Ganges Basin borders the Indus basin and then the Aravalli ridge.
The Dudh-Koshi sub-basin alone consists of 36 glaciers and 296 glacier lakes. [13] The Kosi River basin borders the Tsangpo River basin in the north, the Mahananda River basin in the east, the Ganges Basin in the south and the Gandaki River basin in the west. [14] The eight tributaries of the basin upstream the Chatra Gorge include from east to ...
Jhimruk Khola Hydropower Station (Nepali: झिम्ररुक खोला जलविद्युत आयोजना) is a run-of-river hydro-electric plant located in Pyuthan District of Nepal. The flow from Jhimruk River, a tributary of West Rapti River, is used to generate 12 MW electricity and annual energy of 72 GWh. The flow is ...
The combined Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin (abbreviated GBM or GMB) drainage basin is spread across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and China. [45] The Ganges basin ranges from the Himalaya and the Transhimalaya in the north, to the northern slopes of the Vindhya range in the south, from the eastern slopes of the Aravalli in the west to the ...
ICIMOD’s first and most complete national land cover [24] database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 shows that show that forest is the dominant form of land cover in Nepal covering 57,538 km 2 with a contribution of 39.09% to the total geographical area of the country.
In exchange, Nepal received an equal are of forest land from the British Indian government. In addition, the British Indian government also agreed to give NPR 50,000, a supply of 4.25 m/s out of annual flow of 650 m 3 /s during the dry season and 13 m/s of water in the wet season which could be further increased to 28.34 m/s if water was available.
The mission of the organisation is to safeguard the drainage basin which feeds water into the Ganges by protecting it from pollution or overuse. In July 2014, the NGRBA was transferred from the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation , formerly the Ministry of Water ...
The Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Project is a 456 MW peaking run-of-the-river hydroelectric project in Nepal. [1] It is the largest hydroelectric project in Nepal, operating since July 2021. [2] [3] It is sited on the Tamakoshi River (also spelled Tama Koshi), a tributary of the Sapt Koshi river (also spelled Saptakoshi), near the Nepal ...