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A barrier lake on the Tibet border has breached — Nepal’s Bhote Koshi–Trishuli corridor faces a fresh, secondary flood threat days after the 26…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 28, 2026
Update — 28 August (evening) After breaching, the barrier lake has been draining : water has flowed out since Friday morning and the lake level has fallen by about 10 metres , so Chinese authorities say the secondary-flood risk is gradually decreasing — no…
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According to China's Ministry of Water Resources, cited by Chinese state media, the barrier lake held roughly 2 million cubic metres of water as of Thursday morning (27 August) and was already overflowing. A further 3 million cubic metres was expected to flow…
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The geography is the whole story. The barrier lake formed on the Tibetan side, above the point where the river enters Nepal as the Bhote Koshi. From the border it runs through Rasuwa — the same Timure and Syabrubesi settlements devastated on 26 August — and…
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The barrier lake is the aftershock of the 26 August disaster. That flood was traced to a magnitude 5.2 event recorded by the US Geological Survey — consistent with a glacier collapse — which sent debris into the Lhende Khola, a Bhote Koshi tributary, and down…
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We do not know how much water the breach released, how fast it is moving, or what it will mean on the ground in Nepal — and we will not print a guess. The 2 million cubic metre figure is a Thursday-morning estimate from across the border; conditions change…
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We are based in Pokhara and we are following this story. Figures are provisional and we date every one of them.