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**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization—S.M.; funding acquisition—D.P.; methodology—S.M., R.B.O., and A.T.; investigation—S.M.; data curation—R.B.O. and A.N.; formal analysis—A.N. and R.B.O.; visualization—R.B.O., A.N., and D.P.; software—A.N. and R.B.O.; validation—R.B.O., A.N., D.P., S.M., and A.T.; writing—original draft preparation—R.B.O.; writing—review and editing— A.N., A.T., R.B.O., D.P., and S.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the

**Funding:** The MEXT and the Global COE Program at the University of Yamanashi (UoY), Japan

**Data Availability Statement:** The data presented in this study are available on request from the

**Acknowledgments:** The authors would like to sincerely thank Prof. Futaba Kazama for her support and acknowledge the MEXT and the Global COE Program at the University of Yamanashi (UoY), Japan for funding this study. We are thankful to Dr. Takashi Nakamura from Interdisciplinary Centre for River Basin Environment, UoY, Japan for his support in the lab analysis. We also extend our thanks to Dr. Devraj Chalise for the study area map. We would like to thank three anonymous reviewers and an academic editor for their valuable comments and suggestions, which helped us in

**Figure A1.** A correlation matrix showing the correlation between all variables used in the study, scatter points on the lower panel and correlation value and their 5% significance level on the upper panel. \*\*\* *p*-value <0.001; \*\* *p*-value <0.01, \**p*-value <0.05. **Figure A1.** A correlation matrix showing the correlation between all variables used in the study, scatter points on the lower panel and correlation value and their 5% significance level on the upper panel. \*\*\* *p*-value < 0.001; \*\* *p*-value < 0.01, \* *p*-value < 0.05.

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