Crisis in the Himalayas: Climate change and unsustainable development
Resource ID
9681
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Climate change, floods, hydropower plant
Date
22 March 21
Country
Nepal
Summary
India’s recent deadly flash flood was a combination of “geological activities … the effects of climate change, as well as the unsustainable infrastructure development that has accelerated the process,” said Pema Gyamtsho, ICIMOD’s director-general and a Bhutanese politician. “We know the Himalayan region is very vulnerable, but we’re not taking that into consideration.”
More than 1 billion people “rely on the waters coming from the Himalayas,” said Izabella Koziell of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. “It can mean increased flooding. It can mean more variable water flows…. If they start melting fast, you just have less water. Then the implications are massive.”
Source
Los Angeles Times