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The big transformation of the Valley's water landscape started in the 1970s and 1980s. Alarmed by the changes to longstanding traditions, some planners warned of the unhappy results. In retrospect, the warnings look like a tragic missed opportunity.
People started putting up buildings, including homes, on the lowlands by the rivers for the first time in the 1970s. Buildings popped up along the Dhobi Khola, Samakhusi, Bishnumati, and Bagmati.
A 1986 Government of Nepal/USAID report observed: ‘It is noteworthy that Kathmandu ... has only recently begun to occupy lower-lying flood plains.’
Perhaps some building was inevitable, the report authors noted. But nonetheless they decried the change, predicting serious problems: ‘As these areas are subject to flooding and high water tables, alternative sites should be encouraged,’ they warned.
Some may blame Kathmandu's environmental problems on explosive population growth. Indeed, the population has increased dramatically, and those people need land and other resources. But this argument is no excuse for bad planning.
The GON/USAID report in 1986 by the Kathmandu Valley Town Planning Office and a team of consultants blamed the government for much of the new riverside development. Noting that new buildings were going up on the right bank of the Bagmati from the Dhobikhola to Teku, it added: ‘Conditions here are nearly as deplorable as they are along the Vishnumati, and responsibility lies squarely with the Government. Facilities established by the Departments of Health and Roads and the Solid Waste Management Board have ruined the potential of this site, once an important socio-cultural and religious area.’
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