Increasing concrete cover in Valley causing more urban floods

Experts for building infiltrating ponds to avert flood disasters and recharge groundwater.

Since the pre-monsoon season began in Nepal, Surendra Man Bajracharya has been on high alert. It’s not just the extreme rainfall that has him worried. What concerns him more is that at any given moment, a flash flood could inundate the area outside his house in a low-lying area in Sanepa, Patan.