Its population is hoping to engineer its way to safety.
Reversing Course: The Netherlands, a country long shaped by its overabundance of water, is suddenly confronting drought.The project, started in 1972 and kept alive with hundreds of millions of dollars in international loans through political turbulence and changing governments, had been operating for just a few weeks when the main intake was buried under flood debris.
#Taptap china torrent#
The torrent that ravaged the Melamchi River Valley in June of last year destroyed a project to deliver pipe-borne water to a city that has relied since the sixth century on public spouts connected to underground aquifers. Its effects rippled dozens of miles away to the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, which had been waiting decades for something that much of the rest of the world takes for granted: clean tap water. But the flood didn’t just leave this verdant valley unrecognizable. Then came the explosion: a deluge of melted ice racing down at a rate of 2.5 million gallons per second, unleashing a landslide of sludge that wiped out everything in its path.Īncient trees, fertile fields, homes, power lines, bridges - all were swallowed up. MELAMCHI, Nepal - It started with a sudden spike in temperature, nine degrees Fahrenheit, around the Himalayan glaciers.
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