The objective of the project is to assess the seasonal and long-term water resources in snow and glacier-fed rivers originating in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region and to determine strategies or coping with impacts of climate-change-induced deglaciation on the livelihood of people in the region.

The project will comprise the following activities:

• Review of earlier work
• Collection of relevant data
• Development of a regional runoff model with snow-glacier melt component
• Routing of model to provide a software tool for estimating water resources at any location on any river
• Climate change scenarios applied to estimate the effect of future deglaciation on water resources
• Impact of deglaciation on the livelihoods of people downstream assessed by direct stakeholder consultation
• Results combined to produce mitigation strategies for a range of climate change scenarios

JHU - Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity
Dr S. I. Hasnain

DHM - Department of Hydrology & Meterology
Mr A Pokhrel

University of Salford
Prof. D.N. Collins

ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Dr B. P. Bhadra

Mr G Rees,
Maclean Building,
Crowmarsh Gifford,
Wallingford,
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB

grees@ceh.ac.uk