ABSTRACT
The average annual flow of the nine rivers of Nepal flowing to India is 5,675 m3/sec. This is 47 percent of the average flow of the Ganges river at the Farakka, where India and Bangladesh divide water. Moreover, the fact that Nepal’s contribution to the Ganges flows at lean period is 75 percent (Mishra et al., 2007; WEC,
2002) demonstrates the importance of Nepal’s water resources for all three countries. Nepal and India have signed four water resources treaties.
