Surya Nath Upadhyay's scientific contributions
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Publications (6)
The link between water and conflict is complex and real. Water with its property as a common pool resources and economic good has been the ground for the disputes arising in terms of its accessibility and uses. There has been a case where water dispute has stimulated civil defiance, various acts of sabotage, and even violent protest. Water has no s...
p>Despite the ‘immense’ water resources available, Nepal has not been able to transform this abundance of water resources into desired economic growth and societal welfare. This paper attempts to analyze the reasons for such incessant challenges that loom over water resources development in Nepal. This paper finds that it is not the resource that l...
p class="Pa5"> This paper discusses how an upper riparian country can establish its water right of fulfilling own water needs through development of a transboundary river in a contested terrain of water management. Citing the case of the development of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and adoption of the Declaration of the Principles by the E...
p>In light of ongoing discourses, at present, on water resources and hydropower development in Nepal, HYDRO Nepal felt this an appropriate moment to review some of the personalities who have played important roles in this sector over the past few decades. This time, HYDRO Nepal takes pleasure in presenting the personality profile of Mr. Surya Nath...
This paper analyses the role of the principle of downstream benefit sharing under international water law regime in the management of cross-border water courses. This paper argues that the principle of downstream benefit sharing may play a key role in wiping away the long-existing distrust between countries as well as hold the potential to usher in...
In mid June 2013 there was a cloud outburst in northern Uttarakhanda, India and far western region of Nepal, due to simultaneous activation of monsoon arms one from Bay of Bengal in the east and other from the southwest. There was 322mm of rainfall in Uttarakhanda during the week 13-19 of June 2013 (847% of the nor-mal rainfall of Uttrakhanda for t...
Citations
... The frequent misunderstandings between them are also causes of irregular supplies of petroleum products in the country. When the price of petroleum increases, user preferences onlyshift toward alternative sources including solar, wind,hydro, and biomass [32]. The establishment of renewable energy projects has a positive impact on the local people particularly, on employment generation, increasing the opportunities for small and microenterprises, and supporting their livelihood and high crops production at the village level [33]. ...
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... In May 1997, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UNWC -formally called the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. States looking to develop and manage shared water resources look at the Convention for guidance (Hensengerth et al., 2012;Lee, 2015;Tawfik & Ines, 2018;Upadhyay & Gaudel, 2017;Yihdego et al., 2017). With just 16 signatories and 37 'parties to the convention' (neither India nor Nepal is a signatory or party to this Convention), most states remain outside the Convention's purview. ...
... The Gandak Agreement, 1959 indicates some restriction on inter-basin water transfer from Gandak Basin in some months. However, this is applicable for the natural flow of the river and not applicable to the regulated water produced from the storage projects (Upadhyay and Gaudel, 2014). Therefore, the additional water generated from the storage projects (including Budhi Gandaki Storage Project) in the dry season can be utilized within the country without violating the existing Gandak Treaty and existing water allocation (Gaudel, 2013). ...
