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Nepal's disaster agency said that 823 people remained out of contact on August 27, more than 24 hours after a deadly flood tore through the border region with Tibet. (Photo by Prabin RANABHAT / AFP via Getty Images))    Image source,  AFP via Getty Image  Image caption,  The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000       By (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c8qx38n91kkt) Soutik Biswas       India correspondent      Published 9 hours ago           Nepal's devastating floods have exposed a risk that does not stop at its borders.   India and Nepal share the rivers that rise in the Himalayas, but the relationship between a flood in Nepal and a disaster in India is more complicated than a simple story of water flowing downstream, say experts. Some floods can race out of the mountains carrying enormous quantities of mud, rock and debris. Others may lose much of their force as they reach the plains, leaving behind a more conventional flood.  And whether that water becomes a disaster in India depends not only on how much rain has fallen in Nepal, but also on rainfall, river levels, embankments, drainage and development on the Indian side. Nepal's floods are a warning for India - not simply because water flows south across the border, but because the two countries share a vast and increasingly volatile Himalayan river system.     How many Nepal rivers flow into India?      (Himalaya Valley and mountain stream)    Image source,  Universal Images Group via Getty Images  Image caption,  Nepal has more than 6,000 rivers and streams, most draining south into India and the Ganges       Nepal has more than 6,000 rivers and streams, most draining south into India and the Ganges.  Three major systems dominate: the Kosi in the east, the Gandaki (Gandak in India) in the centre and the Karnali (Ghaghara in India) in the west, with the Mahakali (Sharda) along the western border.  A dozen smaller rivers rising in the Siwaliks and Chure - including the Bagmati, Kamala, Rapti and Babai - are less famous but can produce faster, more unpredictable floods because their catchments are small and steep. Seven to nine major rivers flow from Nepal into the Indian plains, and they are responsible for flooding in India, according to Manish Shrestha, a hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). India's Central Water Commission identifies the Kosi, Gandak, Bagmati and Ghaghara as some of the main transboundary rivers.     Which Indian states are most exposed?      (Cattle stand stranded on small islands surrounded by flood waters in this view taken from a relief helicopter of the Indian Air Force in Madhepura district in India's northeastern state of Bihar on September 7, 2008)    Image source,  AFP via Getty Images  Image caption,  Bihar is India's worst flood-prone state       Bihar is by far the most exposed Indian state, with roughly three-quarters of north Bihar officially classified as flood-prone.  Almost all the major rivers that flood the state originate in Nepal, with the Kosi - the "sorrow of Bihar" - the most notorious, followed by the Gandak, Bagmati and Kamala. But the risk extends beyond Bihar.  Eastern Uttar Pradesh is vulnerable to the Ghaghara, Rapti and Gandak rivers. Districts like Gorakhpur, Bahraich, Lakhimpur Kheri and Shravasti are regularly affected.  Uttarakhand state shares the Mahakali-Sharda rivers. North Bengal receives the Mechi and Mahananda. "Bihar dominates in scale. Uttar Pradesh is second and often under-reported," says Pradeep Man Dangol, hydrologist at ICIMOD. Bihar bears the greatest burden, but Uttar Pradesh is a significant and often overlooked part of the risk.      When Nepal floods, what determines India's fate?      (A view from a relief helicopter of the Indian Air Force shows the flood-affected Sapaul district in India's northeastern state of Bihar on September 6, 2008.)    Image source,  AFP via Getty Images  Image caption,  A view of a flood-affected district in India's Bihar in 2008       Think of it as a three-part chain, say hydrologists.  First, the rain: where it falls and how heavily.  Flood peaks reaching India are often generated not in the high Himalayas but lower down, in the Siwaliks, Chure and Terai, where intense monsoon rain can fall on steep, small catchments. Second, the river.  Nepal's rivers cross a sharp break in slope at the mountain front, drop their sediment, and spread across the plains as braided, shifting channels. Third, when the water meets India.  How bad the flooding becomes depends on what the water encounters - the volume of rain on the Indian side, how full the Ganges is, embankments and barrages, and blocked drainage from roads, railways and settlements on the floodplain. So the peak flow at the border is largely determined by rainfall in Nepal. The  severity of flooding depends at least as much on conditions in India.  The 2008 Kosi disaster shows why: the river was carrying far less water than the embankment was designed to handle. The catastrophe was caused by the embankment failing, not by an exceptional flood. So how much depends on Nepal v India? "For the peak flow arriving at the border, largely Nepal's rainfall; for the severity of flooding once it arrives, at least as much on Indian conditions," says Saswata Sanyal, ICIMOD's intervention manager for disaster risk reduction.     How Nepal's rain becomes India's flood risk     The 2008 Kosi disaster is a powerful illustration. Nearly 400 people died in Bihar after the Kosi breached an embankment in Nepal. But, remarkably, it was not an extraordinary high-flow event on the river. According to Rajiv Sinha, a professor of earth sciences at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, the flow was only about a tenth of the river's carrying capacity. The catastrophe was caused by a breach in an embankment built decades earlier and inadequately maintained.  "The embankments constructed in the 1950s and 1960s had not been properly maintained. They had become eroded and eventually developed a weak point. The river breached its embankment through these vulnerable points and entered parts of India that had not seen flooding for perhaps 100 years," says Sinha. The failure, in other words, was "structural, not hydrological", adds Sanyal.     How much warning can India get from Nepal?     For ordinary monsoon floods, India may have "roughly 12 hours to two days of warning", according to Sanyal, depending on how quickly the water travels downstream. Water can take about a day to reach the Bihar plains from the Nepal mountain front along the Kosi and Gandak, and somewhat longer along the Ghaghara.  Flash floods from the Chure rivers can arrive within hours.  A landslide-dam burst or debris flow can be even faster - in the current floods, the peak surge from Rasuwa reached Triveni, near the Indian border, in about seven-and-a-half hours. India and Nepal do share real-time rainfall and river-level data from a network of stations. Nepal's Department of Hydrology and Meteorology feeds rainfall and river levels to India's Central Water Commission, which uses them for flood forecasts.  But important gaps remain, says Sanyal. They include too few real-time monitoring stations in the fastest-flowing Chure catchments. There's also no single shared forecasting model between the two countries; and limited routine sharing on embankment conditions, river-channel changes and sediment. And then there's, crucially, the last mile.  A warning reaching a district office is not the same as reaching a family in danger. For these transboundary rivers, Sinha says, "cooperation on information sharing and early-warning systems is extremely important. We need rapid continuous monitoring of glacial lakes, their outflows and how they are changing over time".     What is the biggest misconception around Nepal and floods in India?      (This general view shows the confluence of Dhauliganga River (L) and the Rishiganga River near Raini village, in Chamoli district on February 9, 2021)    Image source,  AFP via Getty Images  Image caption,  The confluence of Dhauliganga and Rishiganga rivers in India's Chamoli district       A common misconception is that Nepal "releases" water into India, say scientists. Nepal has almost no large reservoirs capable of doing this: its main storage dam, Kulekhani, holds less than a tenth of a cubic kilometre, "so there's nothing to release", says Sanyal. The Kosi and Gandak barrages are operated by India. When floodwater reaches the border, it is overwhelmingly because rain has fallen upstream - not because Nepal has opened a gate. But there is an important truth behind the claim: much of the water that floods north Bihar and eastern UP has fallen as rain in Nepal, so Nepal's rainfall largely determines the timing and size of flood peaks reaching India. Nepal supplies around 40% of the average annual flow of the Ganges  - and a much larger share in the dry season - making its hydrology critical to India. "What is too simplistic is treating that as a story of cause and blame. Rain is not a decision," says Sanyal. Whether a given flow becomes a disaster depends on conditions in India as much as in Nepal the Ganges' level, Indian rainfall, embankment integrity, drainage and sediment. "And the effects run both ways: embankments and barrages built for India's protection have raised water levels and caused backwater flooding in Nepal's Terai, which is Nepal's long-standing concern,' says Sanyal. Nepal and India share one river system, with one country upstream and the other downstream.  The answer is therefore not blame, but better shared data, forecasting and river management.     So what should worry India the most?      (A view of the landslide as at least four people were killed while 50 others are missing after a massive mudslide and flash floods struck the Dharali village in Uttarakhand, India on August 5, 2025. (Photo by Uttarakhand Police / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images))    Image source,  Anadolu via Getty Images  Image caption,  A massive cloudburst triggered heavy rains and flash floods in Dharali, India, in 2025       "India should be worried. but not necessarily because of the Kosi river in Nepal," says Rajiv Sinha. In other words, experts say, the real warning is about what is happening in the Himalayas - and what happens when water, rock, ice and enormous quantities of sediment suddenly combine. Sinha says the latest Nepal disaster resembles a series of catastrophic events that India has experienced in recent years, including the 2021 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57446224) Chamoli disaster and the 2025 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78zjd8xj2xo) Dharali disaster in Uttarakhand. The Nepal event, he says, was "perhaps five to 10 times larger". "The fundamental point is that these are not normal hydrological floods," Sinha says.  A conventional flood is largely water. But when water from intense rain, melting ice or a sudden discharge mixes with huge quantities of sediment, the result can become a thick, high-energy slurry capable of destroying almost everything in its path. That was the lesson of the Chamoli disaster in 2021, when a large chunk of a Himalayan glacier collapsed in the valley of Chamoli in northern India, sending a cascade of debris and water downstream that killed 200 people and damaged  hydropower infrastructure.  It was also evident at Dharali in Uttarakhand in 2025, after heavy rains triggered a flash flood and the flow of debris buried parts of a village under metres of material. And then there's climate change. Extreme rainfall is intensifying: the region is warming faster than the global average, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and the monsoon is delivering more rain in fewer, heavier bursts, say experts. High-mountain hazards are also growing. As permafrost degrades, glacial lake outbursts and rock-ice avalanches are expected to increase, producing faster, debris-laden floods that are harder to forecast. And more extreme events mean more landslides and sediment in rivers, raising riverbeds and reducing channel capacity on both sides of the border. They are manifestations of the same broad Himalayan hazard system. And India's exposure is considerable.     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