The discussion, held at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, was attended by secretaries from the concerned ministries, officials from the Melamchi Water Supply Development Committee ...

Two scientists are drawfed by the thick loose sediment field brought down by the flood and deposited on the 2.5km long flat valley floor. The sediment field is crumbling and adds more debris into the ...

The Bhemthang sediment field this week after the snowstorm, and in July after the flashflood (pictured below). Photos: SONAM LAMA and SHIVA BASKOTA A scientific team that had gone to assess a monsoon ...

VA Tech WABAG defines a "large" order that is valued between $30 million and $75 million. This EPC order will have to be ...

Water technology firm VA Tech WABAG has secured a repeat order from Melamchi Water Supply Development Board (MWSDB), Nepal, ...

VA TECH WABAG has secured a significant order from the Melamchi Water Supply Development Board in Nepal for the design, construction, and operation of a new water treatment plant in Kathmandu Valley.

A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming. By Emily Schmall ...

Many houses in Melamchi are on stilts to avoid the worst of the flooding. Still, floors are covered in a layer of loose rock. Windows have been ripped out of walls. MELAMCHI, Nepal — In between the ...

A newly built girls' dormitory at Melamchi Ghyang Secondary School in ward 1 of Helambu Rural Municipality has been formally ...

MELAMCHI, Nepal (AP) — In between the Himalayas’ towering mountains, the town of Melamchi is no stranger to extreme weather, and its landscape bears the scars of years of floods and landslides.