Very well said nice. That is exactly what it is. दूधको दूध, पानीको पानी, दाँया-बायाँ भुत्राको कुरो गर्न प-यो ? Regarding the motive of ADB, I am skeptical. Though the actions of RCCC might not be justified in the context of targeting only the D-Company (Deuba ), I concur with RCCC's handling of the so-called "ADB's clearance". WB, IMF, or ADB are there to maintain the elites' grip over poor fellas like Nepal and not to develop Nepal, I don't doubt about that. They ruined Africa (WB and IMF), so whatever ADB says about Nepal should also be taken with a grain of salt, मलाई त त्यस्तो लाग्छ है . Lets not forget that it is the donor's (donor? shit- most of them are lenders) conditions that NEA has to hike the price of electricity every year and so on. Even for Melamchi, ADB's conditions imply that the management of distribution of water should latter be given to a "private" party... u know the motives, dont you? Once they monopolize, they can do whatever they like. ADB नेपालीलाई धनी बनाउन हैन, बुङ्गा बनाउन छिरेको हो प्रभु। If you then see me a wicked pessimist, hell no, here are better solutions. 1. Kulekhani diverts water from Bagmati river basin and Kulekhani project itself is a storage-type. A very good option would be to use the Kulekhani reservoir to feed water to Kathmandu (this can be an entire gravity flow) while finding alternatives to hydropower plant. this will be a lot cheaper than melamchi. I exactly forgot the name of the engineer but think it is "Indra Chaulagai" or sth like that in "khanepani bibhag" who has done a lot of research in this. 2. Set up a mid-size semi-regulating type of reservoir anywhere in the Trishuli (in Dhading district, sth like before Galchhi), produce hydro power with half or less of the discharge and use it to pump water to Thankot etc. in less than half the price of Melamchi and a lot more water. No "phoren" specialists needed, we only need investment, thats it. There is no serious issue of dependence of locals on water-use in that catchment of Trishuli but Melamchi will displace a lot of ppl and environmentally too, melamchi is not that friendly to the Trisuli option. मेरो बिचार पेश गरेको मात्र है । Keep rolling...