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Cleaning the Ganges

New effort to help nurse India’s most sacred river back to health.

Big benefits in small spaces

Bangladeshi women find profit in new methods of vegetable cultivation and cattle rearing.

Water, food and energy security in the “Urban Millennium”

How do we ensure towns and cities are viable places to live?

Facing up to South Asia’s environmental arsenic

Report calls for more action to combat the region’s contamination challenge.

Bangladesh can avert a groundwater crisis by not producing too much rice

Bangladesh will need to be much more efficient in using water to avoid putting pressure on groundwater resources.

More food, fewer floods

Why GAMES could mean a win-win for the Eastern Ganges Basin.

The risk of devastating floods and droughts can be minimized and food production boosted by taking advantage of underground water sources.

Water and poverty

Defining the links October 17 marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. In many communities, access to water is potentially a critical factor...

Keeping their feet dry – Who should pay to uphold water infrastructure in Bangladesh?

A new study conducted under the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) and presented at Stockholm World Water Week this week suggests...