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Environmental issues in Nepal

Historical
lessons
 World has pondered several environmental issues for
over a century and generated a deep amount of
knowledge base.
 Nepal has very limited and fragmented knowledge
about the issues related to environment and changes
in climate.

Introduction
 Nepal is a very small country but is very rich in terms of Natural
Resources. All the natural resources are treated as a gift of the
nature. Few of the necessary natural resources is Nepal are Forest,
water, soil and land.
 Nepal is a landlocked nation located between India and China
which great diversity features (Shrestha and Aryal,2011).

Environmen
tal
Degradation

Imbalance
in the
ecosystem
 Undiminished use for the growth and growth for
hydro-electricity and irrigation, building of road,
cultivation and agro based industries, cable and
urbanization have created the tremendous imbalance
in the entire eco system.
 All the natural resources found there are slowly facing
towards overexploitation.

Population
Growth and
Migration
 The population of Nepal is increasing by 2.6% per
year which has caused a terrible and tremendous
pressure and stress on the land and other areas as
well.
 Apart form this, the people living in Nepal are moving
from mountain region to Terai region which has
become a serious issue on environment (Raut, Sitaula
and Bajracharya, 2010).

Deforestatio
n and its
end results
 Deforestation generates serious issues of soil erosion
majorly found on the hills, mountains and steep
terrains.
 The speedy run-off transmit valuable Nepalese top
soil which is further exported to India as well as
Bangladesh without compensation.
 The huge number of livestock in the country is
reducing from time to time.

Drinking
water and
Sanitation
 Only, 11% of the entire inhabitants obtains piped
drinking water which has been claimed according to
the National Planning Commission.
 Drinking water contains coliform bacteria specially
Escherichia coli.
 As a remedy, the government has motivated
community afforestation agendas such as soil
protection, flood regulator, and cropland loss
protection schemes.

Situation of
Energy
 Wood consist of 87% of the entire fuel obligation for
the people living in Nepal.
 Environmental studies must proceed the construction
of dam phase in order to evaluate the potentials of
such effects and improve them as far as required.
 Increasing human encroachment for the cultivation
and settlement has led to the causes of deforestation
majorly in the Chitwan Valley.

Urban
developmen
t and
pollution
 The urban inhabitants of Nepal is growing at a very high speed rate
of 4 to 5% per annum over the last decade.
 Urban surroundings are below heaviness that come from air, noise,
solid waste, sewage and industrial effluent pollution (Uddin et al.,
2015).

Action plans
 Education and awareness programs against the
environment degradation and the growing population
because it is one of the major factor for the
degradation of environment.
 Limitation of illegal, unrestrained and unorganized
urbanization and settlement development process.

Remedial
solutions
 Involvement towards poverty mitigation by increasing
the generation of income.
 Growth and development of combined settlements
for rural and relegated regions and threatened
clusters to keep a balance on the regional distribution
of population and control land deprivation.
 Internalization of the Environmental Impact
Assessment i.e. EIA system must be majorly used for
the development plans and programs (Pandit and
Bevilacqua, 2011).

Quick facts

Issues of Air
quality
 Indoor air quality is one of the major concern.
Biomass supplies 85% of the total needs of energy.
 Urbanization rate is at the peak.
 The quality of air is declining majorly in the
Kathmandu valley.

Conclusion
 Thus, it can be concluded that the environmental
problems which are found must be minimized in order
to create a sustainable economic development
majorly in Nepal.
 Instant actions must be implemented to degrade the
environmental issues.

References
 Pandit, R. and Bevilacqua, E., 2011. Forest users and
environmental impacts of community forestry in the hills of
Nepal. Forest Policy and Economics, 13(5), pp.345-352.
 Raut, N., Sitaula, B.K. and Bajracharya, R.M., 2010.
Agricultural intensification: linking with livelihood
improvement and environmental degradation in mid-hills of
Nepal. Journal of Agriculture and Environment, 11, pp.83-94.
 Shrestha, A.B. and Aryal, R., 2011. Climate change in Nepal
and its impact on Himalayan glaciers. Regional Environmental
Change, 11(1), pp.65-77.
 Uddin, K., Shrestha, H.L., Murthy, M.S.R., Bajracharya, B.,
Shrestha, B., Gilani, H., Pradhan, S. and Dangol, B., 2015.
Development of 2010 national land cover database for the
Nepal. Journal of environmental management, 148, pp.82-90.