Soil Quality Index and Nutrient in Badekhola and Brindaban Catchments, Nepal

Most of the issues regarding desertification are always related to soil fertility and water quality [1,2]. Hence United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seriously globalized the issues of desertification in 1992. The developed and developing including hilly mountainous countries are the conference of the parties and so as Nepal [3]. The catchments in hill and Himalayan regions in the world are huge source of water [4]. The people’s livelihood depends up on the regular circulation of water. Thus the soil and water health depend upon the health of Himalaya and hills in mountainous countries like India, Bhutan, Afghanistan and obviously Nepal. River, stream, canal, glaciers, river tributaries always flow from upstream to downstream [5].