Efforts at conserving, developing and managing rivers are grossly inadequate

Nepal must begin country-wide river restoration initiatives. We need more dialogue and conservation around water challenges and solutions.

Ajaya Dixit’s current work focuses on studying challenges of building resilience across boundaries and at sub-national scales. He has studied and written extensively on water resources, trans-boundary water cooperation, flood management, wash services and climate change adaptation, clean energy transition and related policy studies. In this interview with the Post ’s Thira Lal Bhusal, Dixit discusses river management in Nepal’s urban areas: Where have we gone wrong in this endeavour and what can we do?