National River Summit: Managing Rivers for Life!

National River Summit

Dates: 24th – 27th September 2014

Venue: Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel

Managing Rivers for Life!

 

Objectives and Outputs:

1. Bring together stakeholders to share knowledge of opportunities and threats to Nepal’s rivers.

2. Prepare recommendations to govern the rivers of Nepal.

3. Form a core group to take the process forward and produce a National River Governance document.

4. Identify key gaps in documentation, knowledge and understanding of Nepal’s rivers and plan a strategy to fill those gaps.

5. To create a forum to ensure continued communication between stakeholders and raise public awareness of river management and conservation.

 

Stakeholder Groups and Participants:

 Politicians

 Bureaucrats and Technocrats

 Academics

 Private Sector (trade and services)

 Community Based organizations (Local communities, NGO’s, River users)

 Development Partners

 Media

 

Schedule:

24th

Afternoon: Welcome Reception, Registration

Evening : Dinner and Key Note Speech

 

25th

Morning: Opening Session

Afternoon: Presentations

Evening: Dinner Program

 

26th

Morning: Technical Session

Afternoon: Workgroups

Evening: Dinner Program

 

27th

Morning: Closing Ceremony

Afternoon: Optional Rafting Trip

 

There will be 150 Participants and the official Language of the summit will be English.

Contact email: nepalrivers@gmail.com Tel: +977 14361995

 

River Challenges to be considered:

 Pollution, including solid waste, sewage, pesticides, industrial waste, and fertilizers.

 Water abstraction, by municipalities, irrigation, industry, water bottling business.

 Dams.

 Mining for sand and stone.

 Sedimentation.

 Flooding.

 Landslide.

 Habitat change from deforestation, and urbanization.

 Overfishing.

 Biodiversity and Invasive species.

 Climate Change.

 Trans-boundary issues.

 Water rights.

 

Chief Guest:

Leela Mani Paudel, Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal

(to be Confirmed)

 

Organizing Committee headed by:

Megh Ale

President of Nepal River Conservation Trust

 

Technical Committee headed by:

Subodh Sharma,

Head of Department, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Kathmandu University

 

Management Committee

headed by: Mausam Khanal

Nepal River Conservation Trust