Water Poverty Situation of Medium-sized River Basins in Nepal

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2475-2489

  Pandey, Vishnu Prasad ^a,b   Manandhar, Sujata ^a   Kazama, Futaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Center of Research for Environment Energy and Water CREEW   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Nepal; River basin; Water poverty index; Water resources

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SCALE; HIGH WATER; NEPAL; POLICY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY ORDER; RIVER BASINS;

WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; POLICY APPROACH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER BASIN; WATER RESOURCE;

NEPAL;

EID: 84861481165     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0027-z     Document Type: Article

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