Publications
March 2016
- Journal: Environmental Science & Policy
- Authors: Sangam Shrestha, Tran Viet Bach, Vishnu Prasad Pandey
Groundwater is the essential resource for various uses and has great economic importance especially in the areas like Mekong Delta, which is the home for some 18 million people and produces a half of Vietnam’s rice and contributes a substantial part of the country’s [...]
- Keywords: Climate change, Groundwater, Mekong Delta, MODFLOW, RCPs, WETSPASS
September 2016
- Journal: Science of the Total Environment
- Authors: Sangam Shrestha, Ranjana Kafle, Vishnu Prasad Pandey
This study aimed at evaluating three index-overlay methods of vulnerability assessment (i.e., DRASTIC, GOD, and SI) for estimating risk to pollution of shallow groundwater aquifer in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The Groundwater Risk Assessment Model (GRAM) model was used to compute the risk of [...]
- Keywords: DRASTIC, GIS, GOD, Groundwater, Risk assessment, SI, Vulnerability assessment
February 2017
- Journal: Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
- Authors: Pallav Kumar Shrestha, Narendra Man Shakya, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Stephen J. Birkinshaw, Sangam Shrestha
This study is the first to assess land subsidence in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Land subsidence simulations were based on a fully calibrated groundwater (GW)flow model developed using a coupled surface–subsurface modelling system. Subsidence is predicted to occur as a result of deep aquifer [...]
- Keywords: Land subsidence, Groundwater abstraction, Kathmandu valley, Groundwater modelling, Deep aquifer