Within a few weeks of the end of the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, the Ganga is again flowing dirty and lean, as the water released from the Tehri dam in Uttarakhand has been stopped again, and pollution continues unabated

The manifestos of India’s main national parties, the BJP and the Congress, lay a great deal of emphasis on water management, but there are few new ideas to manage the big crisis

Rare turtle species are disappearing from India’s rivers as the creatures are poached for the meat and traditional medicine and smuggled across Asia

Engineers have channelled the Kosi over a long distance before building the Atal Setu in Bihar, raising the risk of higher flood surges

A multi-sectoral and multilateral approach to South Asia’s rivers could provide sustainable development, but it needs to include those already marginalised by a narrow development path

Between large scale exploitation of water by power plants, and land erosion worsened by the Farakka barrage, the Ganga and the people on its banks, are both facing an existential crisis

Young filmmakers from China, India and the UK are experimenting with new technology to tell environmental stories

A detailed work shows how two ancient civilisations have benefitted when people rather than governments led relations with the outside world

At the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj this year, the Ganga ran clean, but it was the result of temporary solution, which are not enough to keep the river basin pollution free, and only hid the problem

A brilliant historical analysis of the Himalayan rivers, the monsoon and Asia’s water crisis