The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Frankfurt am Main, the BGR (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany), in cooperation with the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology in Kathmandu, have carried out studies on the Thulagi Glacier and have concluded in 2011 that even assuming the worst case, a disastrous outburst of the lake can be excluded in the near future.
The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Frankfurt am Main, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Germany, along with the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology in Kathmandu, conducted studies on the Thulagi Glacier in 2011, concluding that even under the worst-case scenario, a catastrophic lake outburst is unlikely to occur in the near future.