Excluded from water management for years despite being a major part of the agricultural workforce in Sindh, women farmers have been granted a role in water governance after the passage of a new amendment

Water is everywhere in coastal Bangladesh, but is increasingly undrinkable as sea level rise caused by climate change is turning water sources saline

Adivasis were always vulnerable because of poor access to healthcare. But they suffered even more during the pandemic

Despite the formation of a Saffron Mission to irrigate the land and the labelling of the crop as ‘geographically indicated’, experts fear saffron cultivation will continue to dwindle

Fifty years ago, a group of Indian women scaled a mountain that had never been climbed before, and has not been climbed since then; not all of them returned. Sudipta Sengupta, who was deputy leader of the expedition, shares her story

The Parag Kumar Das Char Library and Research Centre provides storybooks, educational videos and official guidance to a poor and isolated community

As rivers rise in the Indian state, complications with upstream Nepal, the effects of the pandemic and lockdown combine to worsen the situation for citizens

Locals in Gilgit Baltistan use an ancient technique, reinforced by some modern breakthroughs, for glacier grafting to create persistent sources of water

Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers, and recovery is nowhere in sight

The Covid-19 crisis highlights the long-term neglect of women and marginalised groups in water policies in South Asia