One of the most rapidly urbanising cities on the planet, the capital city of Nepal is struggling with old projects sabotaged by controversies and bad strategies as its people go thirsty

On the International Day of the Mountains, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, one of the people responsible for putting the issue on the global agenda, tells us about how the neglect of the mountains is being overcome

As politics took centrestage, Srinagar’s Dal Lake suffered, but is this a blip or a feature of the political changes that have happened in Kashmir, asks Auqib Javeed

With the government unable to meet water needs, a water tanker mafia had sprung up in Karachi, but now with its regularisation there is a legal route, and revenues, for the government, writes Zofeen T. Ebrahim

Authorities are struggling to meet the water needs of the fast growing capital, especially in the winter when there is little rain or snow and pipes freeze over

More than 100 million people live without access to safe water in Southeast Asia, Sam Geall writes about what can be done to improve that and to protect clean water sources

The Sundarbans absorbed the fury of the cyclone to save West Bengal and Bangladesh, but was badly damaged in the process, while the India Meteorological Department earned praise for its accurate updates

The Kali Gandaki case shows that political leaders at the centre, the provinces and the local governments will lock horns in the quest for water

In Kishtwar, a remote region of Kashmir, the Save Marwah Movement stiffens struggle against building of Bursar dam

The Third Pole is offering grants to journalists based in India and Nepal to support in-depth stories on the ecology and the economy of the transboundary Mahakali River basin, with a focus on vulnerable communities, and aimed at helping policymakers and such communities to make better decisions. Application deadline: November 3, 2019