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Nature Climate Change: Increasing Himalayan runoff in the coming decades

A study in Nature Climate change by Arthur Lutz et al. (including scientists from Utrecht University, FutureWater and ICIMOD) confirmed earlier findings in two smaller catchments across the entire Himalayas and Hindu Kush: runoff will increase during the 21st century due to increasing precipitation and glacier melt.

See: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2237.html

ICIMOD press release

UU pres release (in Dutch)