Encroachment of Kathmandu Valley’s rivers and poor drainage worsen inundation

Experts say improving the drainage system is the only way to address the problem of annual floodings.

On Friday evening it rained heavily for two hours in the Kapan area on the northern rim of Kathmandu Valley. The Kapan-Tarkari Bazaar-Sat Tale road section instantly turned into a river flooding the ground floors of most of the houses on both sides of the road. At the Tarkari Bazaar (vegetable market) the shops were waterlogged and vegetables were floating on water.