Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin

scenic-photo-of-water-dam-during-daytime-2699258f

South Asia’s Floods Don’t Have Borders – So Why Does Flood Governance?

Sayanangshu Modak 19/07/2020

For far too long South Asia has had to...

1280px-Sundarbans

Amphan in the Sundarbans: How Mangroves Protect the Coast From Tropical Storms

Priya Ranganathan 28/05/2020

A 2013 study estimated that a mangrove forest could...

Bengaluru, Cauvery River, Central Ground Water Board, Chennai, Chennai water shortage, drinking water, groundwater, Karnataka, Ministry of Water Resources, National Water Policy, NITI Aayog, Tamil Nadu, The Washington Post, water supply, World Bank, World Resources Institute,

India a ‘Hotspot’ of Freshwater Overuse, Satellite Data Says

A NASA report noted that groundwater extraction for irrigation...

The Indus river in Kashmir – not so pristine? Credit: maxos_dim/pixabay

Water for Over 50 Million in Pakistan Contains Dangerous Levels of Arsenic

Lakshmi Supriya 01/09/2017

‘It may be the size of the Asian rivers,...

skardu

The Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra Basins Are Drying Up Faster Than We’d Like

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/06/2015

The Indus Basin is the second most overstressed on...