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The article presents a research study which discusses climate change and its impact on the agriculture and water supply in Nepal. Topics include the perception of water stress by community residents and its association to climate change, an analysis for water storage systems in the area, and the need for community engagement. Also mentioned are the political economic context and challenges to the establishment of storage infrastructure, including inequality, power relations, and out-migration.

PHOTO (COLOR): Lake Superior In Brief Most people are not accustomed to putting dollar values on environmental services. While nonmarket valuation techniques that use property values for eliciting values will not work for the Anishinaabe, techniques that rely on travel costs to recreational, historical, and cultural heritage sites or stated preferences methods may be useful for guiding policy. Non-use values are independent of these uses and refer to the benefits derived from preservation and existence, where preservation values pertain to the benefit associated with bequeathing resources to future generations and existence values the benefit associated with the knowledge that a resource exists. When nonmarket inputs (e.g., water quality, forest cover) are important components of the production process, willingness-to-pay values can be inferred from the contribution they make to the value of the marketed commodity. [Extracted from the article]