State-owned companies are pushing for a “Great Leap Forward” in dam building. But Chinese NGOs can hold them to account, environmentalist Yu Xiaogang tells Isabel Hilton.

Two recent scientific studies have highlighted the chronic water problems in the Yangtze River Basin.

Debating the precise, quantifiable flows of the Brahmaputra will not foster regional cooperation. Water diplomats should discuss the river’s environmental value instead, argues Rohan D’Souza.

Planners and donors for a new wave of African dam projects should learn lessons from the past and not treat local people as mere obstacles, argues Jamie Skinner.

The most comprehensive assessment of Himalayan glaciers yet, published in 2011 by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.  

A study by the Observer Research Foundation that analyses media reporting on water issues related to the Indus, in the leading dailies of both India and Pakistan.  

The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Yale University.

Trilingual English, Nepali and Hindi website of the Kalimpong Press Club covers Darjeeling, Kalimpong and less comprehensively Sikkim.  

Two years ago a massive landslide devastated Pakistan’s Hunza Valley. People in the region remain stranded even now and not enough has been done to prevent future calamities, writes Noreen Haider.