Three Ukrainians were swept to death by the unusual flood last year when they were at a hotwaterspring along the Seti river some 20 kilometres north of Pokhara.
In traditional geothermal energy, engineers drill near a geyser, hotspring or volcano, stick a valve and turbine on the hotwater, and that's pretty much it.
Once over the top of a high dune, you come to a hotspring, the size of a large jacuzzi, where sulphurous water bubbles in a pool and runs off to irrigate a garden.