{"id":20017910,"date":"2016-03-18T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:49:53","slug":"surveying-bhutans-most-dangerous-glacial-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/surveying-bhutans-most-dangerous-glacial-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveying Bhutan&#8217;s most dangerous glacial lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have been responsible for some of the greatest damage in the Himalayan region in the last few years. Bhutan, a country consisting solely of mountain valleys, is particularly vulnerable. <a href=\"http:\/\/glacierhub.org\/2015\/07\/01\/glacier-lake-bursts-in-bhutan\/\">A GLOF in Bhutan occurred on June 28, 2015<\/a> and emptied Lemthang Tsho (lake), the source of the\u00a0Mochu\u00a0river<\/p>\n<p>The GLOF caused by the partial breach of Luggye Tsho on October 7, 1994 is recorded as the most catastrophic event in recent history of Bhutan, both in terms of its magnitude and the loss of life, property, and infrastructure downstream. Records show that the GLOF killed 20 people, livestock, and damaged several houses, watermills, and pasture lands along its path. The event prompted the Royal Government of Bhutan to commission several research activities on glaciers and glacial lakes. The Punatsangchu hydropower project &#8211; Bhutan&#8217;s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/sandrp.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/26\/bhutan-hydropower-developments-in-2015\/\">dam downstream along the same river\u00a0<\/a>was also at\u00a0risk.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_17912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17912\" style=\"width: 1020px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Before_Lemthang-Tsho-GLOF_May-2015-by-Sebastian-Kammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17912 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Before_Lemthang-Tsho-GLOF_May-2015-by-Sebastian-Kammer.jpg\" alt=\"Before Lemthang Tsho GLOF in May 2015 [image by Sebastian Kammer]\" width=\"1020\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lemthang Tsho (lake) in\u00a0May 2015, before the GLOF [image by Sebastian Kammer]<\/figcaption><\/figure>As a result, in September 2015, Department of Hydro-Met Services (DHMS) engineer Tshering Wangchuk led an eight-member team of geologists, foresters, GIS technicians and hydrologists to the glacial lakes and villages of Lunana Gewog. Accompanied by ten helpers and 40 horses, the group surveyed lakes, profiled rivers and conducted a vulnerability assessment on the local people living in the area highly vulnerable to natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_17913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17913\" style=\"width: 1020px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After_LemthangTsho-GLOF_July-2015_by-Sharad-Joshi_ICIMOD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17913\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/After_LemthangTsho-GLOF_July-2015_by-Sharad-Joshi_ICIMOD.jpg\" alt=\"After Lemthang Tsho GLOF, July 2015 [image by Sharad Joshi\/ICIMOD]\" width=\"1020\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lemthang Tsho in July 2015, after the GLOF [image by Sharad Joshi\/ICIMOD]<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2015\/08\/14\/glacier-floods-a-growing-threat-across-the-third-pole\/\">Read: Glacier floods a growing threat across the third pole<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2015\/11\/16\/nepals-seti-flood-victims-still-live-in-fear\/\">Read: Nepal\u2019s Seti flood victims still live in fear<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2013\/06\/20\/himalayan-tsunami-devastates-uttarakhand\/\">Read: Uttarakhand floods a \u201cman-made disaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/2015\/09\/08\/learning-to-live-with-flash-floods\/\">Read: Learning to live with flash floods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey team met residents\u00a0in Thanza, Tenchi, Lhedi, Shangsa and Tshojo villages, within the Lunana watershed, located very close to the glacial lake outlets. More than a hundred households live close to the glacial lake outlets within the Lunana watershed. GLOFs are the primary risks to the settlements along the rivers. Researchers aimed to learn more on how the community perceived GLOFs and climate change, their capacity to handle potential disasters, and their plans to reduce their risks and losses in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies in the Himalayas in Bhutan have all showed evidence of glacier retreat. There are 25 glacial lakes identified as potentially dangerous, Thorthormi Lake being considered the most dangerous one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Climate warming is the driving force behind glacier retreat and the\u00a0formation of glacial lakes or expansion of those lakes, thereby accelerating potential extensive downstream damage and loss of life due to GLOFs. It has become imperative to locate and map these lakes, to\u00a0identify critical ones among them, and to\u00a0understand hazards associated with them and mitigate or minimize the risks,\u201d said Pradeep Mool, Programme Coordinator of ICIMOD\u2019s Cryosphere Initiative. He said the Cryosphere Monitoring Programme in Bhutan will also address this issue as a part of a comprehensive monitoring programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a glacier overflow lake burst its banks last year, Bhutan &#8211; with the help of ICIMOD &#8211; has surveyed the state of many of these dangerous lakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2194,"featured_media":20017911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[519,20000022,554,50040707],"hashtags":[],"country":[20027489],"class_list":["post-20017910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-impacts","tag-himalayas","tag-hydropower","tag-the-third-pole","country-bhutan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Surveying Bhutan&#039;s most dangerous glacial lakes | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a glacier overflow lake burst its banks last year, Bhutan - 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