The 26 August flood that has now killed at least 1,114 people in Nepal reached the last river gauge on the Narayani at a peak of 6.57 metres, below the 7.3-metre warning level the government publishes for that station, and passed the end of the monitored river without crossing a threshold there
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At 8:40 in the morning on 26 August, the automatic gauge on the Bhote Kosi at Nepal’s border with China reported the river at 1.62 metres. The reading was low, and it was falling.
It was the last reading that station sent. Devesh Belbase, a Kathmandu-based water policy and governance expert, records in Nepali Times that a wall of water coming down the Lhende Khola destroyed the equipment before the next reading was due. When the flood arrived at Devghat late in the afternoon, at the far en
It was the last reading that station sent. Devesh Belbase, a Kathmandu-based water policy and governance expert, records in Nepali Times that a wall of water coming down the Lhende Khola destroyed the equipment before the next reading was due. When the flood arrived at Devghat late in the afternoon, at the far en
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