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A Flood Does Not Check Passports - So Neither Should Our Flood Data

The Nepal disaster has exposed how national-security-driven secrecy over hydrological and geological data between upper-riparian China and lower-riparian India and Nepal has repeatedly delayed life-saving flood and landslide warnings, reviving the argument for a technical, non-political early-warning mechanism built to match the physics of a shared mountain system rather than the politics of three separate governments.