ABSTRACT
International nver basins are commonly characterized by diversity of political jurisdictions and unity of hydrological behavior. While the irrevocable laws of hydrology and other earth sciences governing the space-time occurrence and distribution of the water resources are based on the integrity of the basin, its political divisions which are generally based on historic, ethnic, cultural and other factors, often tend to ignore this. On account of this dichotomy, optimal and adequate development of the water resources of international river basins shared between Nepal and India has defied effort and proved elusive so far. This has meant denial of immense benefits which are techno-economically feasible from such development processes in the concerned region leading in dynamic cooperation between the co-basin nations, essentially required for such development. This has been primarily due to the fact that both science, which will make such cooperation logical, imperative and inevitable and people whose life and living are vitally affected, have been divorced from the process of water resources development.
