CHALLENGES IN - NEPAL’S SMALL TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS

as a result of the conceptualization, design, construction, usability, and The agreements on the Koshi, Gandaki, maintenance of physical infrastructure such and Mahakali (Sarada) rivers and the as roads and proposed railway lines linked existing instruments shared by Nepal and to the riverscape. [...] This approach would transboundary water approached the open avenues for bottom-up water dialogue problems of inundation and flooding? in the various scales of the transboundary • What were the outcomes of these setting of the rivers of the Ganga Basin. [...] The Nepal and India, the emerging complexities reviews of existing materials suggested as well as the lack of a grounded ecological the need to undertake a more in-depth narrative of the CB region, also limited the analysis of the change dynamics of the making of prescriptive suggestions. [...] At the same time, both floods in the Indus River (Pakistan), and in Nepal and across the border in India, droughts and floods in parts of the EGR CB regions face a decline in the integrity are examples. [...] The rise in the population of natural ecosystems leading to a decline living in flood and landslide risk areas in in the quantity and quality of the region’s the region as well as the development of freshwater base.