We visited the Koshi River near Biratnagar where is about one hour flight from Kathmandu.

The Koshi River runs from the Himaraya Mountain through Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

Near the boundary between Nepal and Indea, there is a barrarge.  

Since the barrarge section is narrow, the back water effect is going on along the upstream of barrarge, and then the sedimentation is taking place there, which increaces the denger of the inundation.

In 2008, a large scale levee breach took place and 2.7 millions of people evacuated, which is one of the largest scale flood in this century.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7586256.stm

http://www.amurt.eu/node/21

http://riseupindia.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/bihar-flood-the-disaster-widens/

A large amout of deposit is still there and people living there are suffering from the flood.

We made an iRIC simulation and Dr. Akahori presented it in the Seminar

We agreed to start a research project more using iRIC.