"Over the next 20 years, the availability of fresh water to the four countries of the Himalayan subregion – India, China, Nepal and Bangladesh — will decline by about 275 billion cubic meters, which is more than the amount of water available to Nepal at present, according to the report, “The Himalayan Challenge: Water Security in Asia.”
Rising temperatures will melt glaciers feeding China’s Yellow River and India’s revered Ganges River, which will turn seasonal by the second half of the present century, leaving farmlands at the mercy of rapidly depleting groundwater and dodgy rains, says the report."
