Environment in Nepal
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NEPAL, 2014/03/11
The one-time thriving rafting business on the Marshyangdi River has greatly suffered next the construction of mid-Marshyangdi Hydropower project, local tourism entrepreneurs lamented.
With the river water used for generating hydro power, hotels on the riverside, which depended on tourists enthusiastic about canoeing and rafting on the turbulent, fast-flowing waters of the river, have suffered a lot.
Most of them have downed their shutters as the river presently tamed for generating hydropower has ceased to lure tourists for rafting and other water related recreational activities.
