
Steel pipeline lies stockpiled in a farmer’s field. Despite costs being met by the Asian Development Bank, many upstream communities are suffering from the disturbance.

A long view across a typical low-land farming community. Rice paddies are irrigated by small channels that divert the central stream flow.

Young boys escape the heat by playing in a canal downstream from a small dam. Designed to direct water in a small hydroelectric scheme the system flouts environmental regulations by leaving almost zero flow in the natural stream bed.

Teenagers was their bodies and clothes in a communal spring within a rice paddy. Typical of the area, Dhulikhel is fed by a number of different water sources with the springs meeting a number of domestic requirements for water in-situ.