Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic

The ancient water distribution system through stone spouts provides both water and arena for social theatre

The pandemic has shown that universal access to water is critical to public health, sustainable development and economic growth – the politicians must act now

Culture, health and urban management collide as Bhutan tries to get to grips with its challenge of thousands of stray dogs

Packed inside tiny homes on metre-wide lanes, slum dwellers facing the Covid-19 pandemic wonder how they can distance themselves

A new study identifies key issues that are driving the water crisis of towns and cities across the Himalayan region

The winner of the 2020 Jane Drew Prize, Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari spoke to thethirdpole.net on the architectural needs of Pakistan, and how she is “atoning for past sins”

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, Thimpu, especially in the winter when there is little rain or snow and pipes freeze over.