2 years since Manang floods: Locals in Nepal’s rain shadow fear being long-term climate refugees

Dol Maya Gurung’s family settled in a house built on public land in Taal village after their house in Siran Tal of the Manang district in Nepal’s Gandaki province was washed away. Following the flood on June 15, 2021, the small village where 34 people from seven other families used to live turned into a floodplain full of sand.

Almost all human settlements in the district were affected by floods and landslides that year .