Paani Program: Executive Summary

The Executive Summary is a top-level review of the three assessments performed by WWF and partners through the Paani Project: Energy Options Assessment, High Conservation Value Rivers Assessment, and System Scale Planning Methodology. Collectively, these three components reveal that Nepal has globally significant rivers that provide considerable value to local communities and the country overall – and that Nepal has a great opportunity to design its future power system in a way that meets demand for low costs, with low carbon emissions, and that is consistent with protecting its high value rivers.