This is my first presentation in Civil Engineering Department, University of tokyo, Japan. This is introduction of me, my country Nepal and Water Resources of Nepal.

1. CIVIL ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN
6 NOVEMBER 2013
(Introduction of My
Country)

2. SELF INTRODUCTION
Name : Arun Kumar SHARMA
Home town : Chuwa 9, Parbat Nepal (250 KM West from Kathmandu)
(50 Km west from Pokhara)
My
Hometown
Kathmandu
It is located at 28°13'60N
83°40'60E at an altitude of
900 to 1,300 meters.
Trekking Root to the
Annapurna Base Camp and
Mustang (Famous Trekking

3. CONTD…
Educational Background
School : Narayan Higher Secondary School, Kushma
Parbat
PCL : Prithivi Narayan Campus, Tribhuvan
University, Pokhara
UG : Eastern Region Campus, Institute of
Engineering
Tribhuvan University (2009), Dharan
Professional Experience
1. Program Coordinator : Community
Managed Irrigated Agricultural Sector
Project (CMIASP)
2. Rural Infrastructure Program Manager :
Canadian Centre for International Studies
and Cooperation (CECI)
3. Consultant Engineer : United Mission to
Nepal (UMN)

4. MY VILLAGE CHUWA
Trail Foot Bridge
Span 335 m
Height 135 m
Annapurna Base Camp
Fewa Lake
Mustang

5. NEPAL: THE HIDDEN TREASURE
• In one sentence: developing country with
huge natural resources & cultural variety.

6. WHY NEPAL IS SPECIAL?
Famous for the eight of the world's ten tallest mountains including MOUNT
EVEREST

7. CONTD…
Tilicho lake, the lake in the highest altitude
Arun valley, the deepest valley in the world
Birth place of Gautam Buddha, founder of Buddhism
Kaligandaki, deepest gorge in the
world

8. CONTD…
• Geographical diversity. (59 m to 8848m in 240 km)
• Unity in religious , ethnical (102) , Cultural (100+) and linguistic (70+) diversity.
• Sovereign country, Gurkha are famous all around the for their bravery.
If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is Gurkha. :-(Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, 8th Chief of
Army Staff, East India Company, Britain)
 One of the best tourist attraction for Rafting, Trekking, Jungle Safari, Bungee Jumping, Paragliding, Mountain Climbing,
Mountain Flight, Mountain Cycling.
• Home of 871 bird species.
• one of the few places in world where one can find Royal Bengal Tiger and One horn rhinoceros.
• Second largest water resource in the world (first is Brazil).
• More than 6,000 ever fast flowing rivers.
• 10 World Heritage Sites and 7 within an area Of 20 KMs.
• 11 of the world's 15 families of Butterflies.
• Over 3000 Temples, 1200 Monasteries.
• “KUMARI” World's only living goddess. etc
• One of the best country for adventure destination- National Adventure Geographic Magazine
• One of the 50 places to see before you die: BBC

9. WATER RESOURCES IN NEPAL
• about 6000 rivers,
• Drainage area 191000 sq. km,
• 74% lies in Nepal alone.
• Average annual precipitation 1530
mm
Source:WECS,
2011

10. CONTD…
• surface water availability 225 BCM per annum
(7,125 m3/s), 15 BCM per annum is in use.
• Around 95.9% of 15 BCM used for agriculture,
3.8% for domestic purpose and 0.3% for
industry.
• economy is based on agriculture; contributes
40% to GDP and provides employment to
two-thirds of the population.
• cultivated area of 2,642,000 ha (18% of its
land area), of which 2/3rd (1,766,000 ha) is
potentially irrigable.
• At present 42% of the cultivated area has
irrigation of some sort, but only 17% of
cultivated area has year round irrigation. 8%
of the country’s water potential is used for
irrigation.
• Ground water Availability 8.8 BCM ( 52% upto
2015)
• hydropower potential 83,000 MW, 114 projects
having 45,610 MW have been identified
economically feasible. (Production upto 2011 is
700 MW)
• 72% population has access to basic water supply.
• highly vulnerable to recurrent floods and
landslides. cloudburst (CLOFs), glacial lake
outburst floods (GLOFs), landslide dam outburst
floods (LDOFs), floods triggered by the failure of
infrastructure, and sheet flooding or inundation
in lowland areas due to an obstruction imposedSource: wecs,2011

11. SEDIMENTATION PROBLEM IN NEPAL
• Unstable soil
• Increase in animal numbers
• Tourists & Trekkers
• Steep Slopes
• Melting snow
• Population Increase
• Trees for firewood
• Heavy Rain
• Terraces collapse
• Steep mountain
• High precipitation
• High velocity
• Reduction of velocity at
plains
• Meandering of river

12. SEDIMENTATION PROBLEMS IN NEPAL
• Main barrier for hydropower, Irrigation
and Water Supply.
• Nepal loses approximately 240 million
cubic meters of sediment per year.
• Due to the sediment depositions in the
reservoir and the river bed the flow is
threatening to overtop the barrage and
cause massive flooding, loss of land
and people in both India and Nepal.
2008 Koshi Flood

13. RECENT FLOODS IN NEPAL
Region Year Disaster
Mahakali June
2013
Final report still to be
prepared
Dang June
2012
145 families were displaced
and 2,200 household were
affected by flash floods
Batadi, Achham,
Kalikot, Jajrkot,
Rukum, Rolpa,
Kaski, Tanahu,
Makwanpur,
Gorkha, Nuwakot,
Sindhuli, Sarlahi,
Solukhumbu
June
2011
14 districts affected by floods
and landslide; 25 deaths; 2
missing; 4 injured; 515
houses destroyed
Dailekh, Jajarkot,
Rukum, Palpa,
Rupandehi, Parbat,
Dhading, Sindhuli,
Solukhumbu,
August
2011
9 districts affected; 65
deaths; 35 missing; 24
injured; 110 houses
destroyed
Kanchanpur Septem
ber
2010
60 houses damaged on the
Mahakali river
Dadeldhura,
Bajura, Achham,
Rukum, Kaski,
June–
August
2010
6 districts affected; 98
deaths; 8 missing; 29 injured;
2,835 houses destroyed;
Disaster statistics per year:
Flood
Killed …... 164.47
Affected …… 110,335.66
Economic damage ………$32,388.41
landslide
Killed…... 98.92
Affected…… 30,634.83
Economic damage… N/A

14. WHERE ARE WE ?
NEPAL
• 26.5 million people in 147,181 sq.
Km(~180/sq km)
• Life expectancy ~68 yrs.
• Remittance based economy (GDP per
capita $1,400)
• Human Development Index 0.463 (Rank
157)
• Literacy rate 66%
• 46% unemployment
• Landlocked (nil)
• Total road 17,282km
JAPAN
• 126.67 million people in 377,944 sq
km(~337/sq.Km)
• Life expectancy ~83 yrs.
• Production based economy (GDP per
capita $36,266)
• Human Development Index 0.912 (Rank
10)
• Literacy rate 99%
• 3.9% unemployment
• Coastline 29,751 km
• Total road 1,200,858 km Source : Wikipedia

15. Thank you for your kind attention.
Questions??