As India’s hydropower hotspot, Himachal Pradesh offers important lessons about the huge risks of building large dams in the Himalayas

India’s top expert summarises his views on the need to factor in the Himalayas in the new water policy

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

The engineering solutions put in place to tackle the issue of floods has created more problems than solutions in Bihar, says former IIT professor and doyen of water experts Dinesh Mishra

A shift from water sharing to collective initiatives that focus on building basin-wide resilience could strengthen regional cooperation in South Asia

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

Farming in the delta depends on silt, which is being blocked by dams in other countries upstream

Women in Nepal and India learn together to deal with floods along the Kosi

WWF’s latest Living Planet Report is a holistic treatise on conservation governance, human survival and the economic logic of conserving the environment, argues Nilanjan Ghosh

The Indian government is trying to give more powers to the centre to solve inter-state river disputes, but its draft bill fails to recognise realities and suffers from a bureaucratic approach