50 villages flooded in Muzaffarpur
MUZAFFARPUR: Tirhut divisional commissioner Narmadeshwar Lal on Sunday asked officials concerned to keep a close watch on embankments in the region amid rise in water level in several rivers. The Bagmati
Bagmati
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Drought far more serious than Bagmati flooding: Kumar
THE large-scale destruction unleashed by the Kosi river last year is still fresh in the minds of the people and, not surprisingly, when the river Bagmati breached its embankment at Runisaidpur in Sitamarhi district on Saturday, it created a scare which many felt would only compound the problems of the state already reeling under the severe drought-like conditions.
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Centre rushes more rescue forces to flood-hit Sitamarhi
New Delhi: With breach in the embankment of swollen Bagmati river leaving nearly one lakh people homeless in Sitamarhi district in north Bihar, the Centre on Sunday rushed an additional contingent of its National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
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Bagmati flood waters sink 2 more villages
Muzaffarpur/Sitamarhi: The flood waters from Saturday
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Bihar flood situation worsens
ANAND S.T. DAS PATNA The flood situation in north Bihar worsened on Sunday with the Bagmati's marauding waters entering fresh areas and the NH-77, connecting Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur, getting inundated. The number of affected people rose to 1.5 lakh since Saturday's embankment breach.
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A sustainable engineering disaster
Dinesh Kumar Mishra looks back at the history of floods in North Bihar and wonders what this year has in store Had the Kosi river not breached its eastern embankment at Kusaha last year, 2008 would have gone down as a drought year in North Bihar. The rains were scanty and there was virtual drought after the breach occurred. That is why the Kosi hit only 3.3 million people across five
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New project to save the Bagmati
It stinks, it's dirty and many of Kathmandu's denizens have given up hope that Kathmandu's holy river, the Bagmati, can ever be salvaged. But two organizations want to give it a shot all the same.
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Costs and benefits of flood mitigation in the Lower Bagmati Basin
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a systematic qualitative analysis of the costs and benefits of constructing embankments in the lower Bagmati River basin, which stretches across the Nepal Tarai and into northern Bihar. This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of both structural flood control measures, and a wide array of local, "people-centered" strategies.
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Ecological effects of sands-play in recent flood of Bihar
The prominent rivers of Bihar all originating from Nepal and entering into Bihar, are adversely affected sands-play resulting from flood.
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Farewell to the Bagmati civilisation: Losing riverscape and nation in Kathmandu
<p>The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist.
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Flood mapping and analysis : A case study of July 2004 flood in Baghmati river basin
This study pertains to analysis of Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) images in mapping the flood inundation and causative factors of flood in the lower reaches of Baghmati river basin for the period July