Introduction

Abstract

The very geography of Nepal and India is such that these two countries must live together and engage with each other in many spheres: social, economic and political. Of all the issues that these two countries have to deal with, water resources is not only the most important one, but also the one that has become a very sensitive matter. It is because water, a scarce resource in south Asia, is the most important natural resource that Nepal possesses, although most of it is yet to be exploited. © 2009 Springer Netherlands.