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The aim of SDG 6.1 was to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. While this is a difficult target, the growing importance of public health due to Covid-19 may encourage governments to prioritise the supply of clean water to their citizens. Due to the pandemic there has been animmediate
COMPULSORY WASTE SORTING IN CHINA BRINGS WEALTH TO SOME Wang Chen. August 6, 2019. December 17, 2020. A number of South Asian countries have started mandating waste sorting, but with limited success. But as waste-sorting is being made compulsory in parts of China, it is creating important economic drivers that may mark the key difference between a good idea and its successful implementation. –eds.
BHUTAN USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO BOOST AGRICULTURE Bhutan uses Covid-19 crisis to boost agriculture. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhutan initially banned food imports. The ban was soon lifted as officials realised it was unfeasible. But with the closure of Bhutan’s borders with India, the country’s food imports have plummeted. A combination of a shortage of labour to handle the BHUTAN STRUGGLES WITH LOCAL WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGES South Asia’s most water abundant country, Bhutan, faces local water shortages because of poor management and accessibility. Every other day, Phub Dem, from the remote village of Phangyul in western Bhutan, travels up to three kilometres to fetch drinking water. Sometimes she gets a lift in her neighbour’s tractor but most of the time she INDIA SEEKING WAYS TO LIMIT CLIMATE CHANGE AFTER IPCC India seeking ways to limit climate change after IPCC report. The Indian government has taken the latest IPCC report seriously and is committed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees; this may require radical, expensive and painful changes. Among the painful changes India may have to make is to shut coal plants before the endof their
FLASH FLOODS THE DANGEROUS NEW NORMAL IN BHUTAN Flash floods the dangerous new normal in Bhutan. On the evening of June 26, there were two flash floods in eastern Bhutan. Roads, culverts, bridges, paddy fields were damaged. It hardly made news, even in this small country. That is what is perhaps most alarming. PHOTO STORY: THE CHINA-BUILT RAILWAY CUTTING THROUGH LAOS Photo story: The China-built railway cutting through Laos. Standing at the bus station in Luang Namtha, the biggest town in northern Laos, travellers wanting to get south to the capital Vientiane face the prospect of a punishing 18-hour journey – and that’s onTHE THIRD POLE
The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges. AIR POLLUTION ADDS TO INDIA’S PANDEMIC PAIN Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma since childhood, Verma was dreading the impact. Instead, the 47-year-old homeopathic medicine practitioner was surprised to find that she was largely in better shape during the PLASTIC CHOKES DHAKA'S DRAINAGE Trapped in the pipes and drains, especially of densely populated capital Dhaka and the second largest city Chittagong, this plastic waste has caused the sewerage systems to break down repeatedly. UN Habitat says Dhaka is the world’s most crowded city, with 44,500 people living in each square kilometre. More are added every day,especially
PANDEMIC EFFECT
The aim of SDG 6.1 was to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. While this is a difficult target, the growing importance of public health due to Covid-19 may encourage governments to prioritise the supply of clean water to their citizens. Due to the pandemic there has been animmediate
COMPULSORY WASTE SORTING IN CHINA BRINGS WEALTH TO SOME Wang Chen. August 6, 2019. December 17, 2020. A number of South Asian countries have started mandating waste sorting, but with limited success. But as waste-sorting is being made compulsory in parts of China, it is creating important economic drivers that may mark the key difference between a good idea and its successful implementation. –eds.
BHUTAN USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO BOOST AGRICULTURE Bhutan uses Covid-19 crisis to boost agriculture. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhutan initially banned food imports. The ban was soon lifted as officials realised it was unfeasible. But with the closure of Bhutan’s borders with India, the country’s food imports have plummeted. A combination of a shortage of labour to handle the BHUTAN STRUGGLES WITH LOCAL WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGES South Asia’s most water abundant country, Bhutan, faces local water shortages because of poor management and accessibility. Every other day, Phub Dem, from the remote village of Phangyul in western Bhutan, travels up to three kilometres to fetch drinking water. Sometimes she gets a lift in her neighbour’s tractor but most of the time she INDIA SEEKING WAYS TO LIMIT CLIMATE CHANGE AFTER IPCC India seeking ways to limit climate change after IPCC report. The Indian government has taken the latest IPCC report seriously and is committed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees; this may require radical, expensive and painful changes. Among the painful changes India may have to make is to shut coal plants before the endof their
FLASH FLOODS THE DANGEROUS NEW NORMAL IN BHUTAN Flash floods the dangerous new normal in Bhutan. On the evening of June 26, there were two flash floods in eastern Bhutan. Roads, culverts, bridges, paddy fields were damaged. It hardly made news, even in this small country. That is what is perhaps most alarming. PHOTO STORY: THE CHINA-BUILT RAILWAY CUTTING THROUGH LAOS Photo story: The China-built railway cutting through Laos. Standing at the bus station in Luang Namtha, the biggest town in northern Laos, travellers wanting to get south to the capital Vientiane face the prospect of a punishing 18-hour journey – and that’s onTHE THIRD POLE
The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges. INDIA'S WATERWAYS AND THE GOVERNMENT'S UNKEPT PROMISES In March 2016, India’s Parliament enacted the National Waterways Act, 2016, creating 106 new waterways on many rivers, river stretches, estuaries, creeks, backwaters and canals in the country.This was part of a renewed push for the development of large-scale commercial shipping and navigation on these inland waterways to transport bulk and hazardous goods. LANDSCAPES OF DAURIA: A WETLAND REFUGE ON THE RUSSIA The ever-changing Torey Lakes are a wetland paradise. Two large lakes and more than 300 smaller bodies of water in the Torey Depression support 305 bird species and 42 mammal species, as well as reptiles, amphibians, fish and more than 590 species of insects. Many of THREAT OF GLOFS FROM SHISHPER GLACIER GIVES COMMUNITIES 18 hours ago · The cool summer nights in the scenic Hunza valley of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan province turned unpleasant last month. In late May, a lake at the base of the Shishper glacier flooded, displacing at least 20 residents in the downstream village of Hassanabad and damaging a half-built power station.. Akber Hussain, a villager in his late 50s, looked helpless as he and his family packedup
TAKING STOCK OF BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION IN THE HIMALAYAS A recent policy dialogue and stocktaking showed some progress in protecting biodiversity in the Hindu Kush Himalayas region. On the declaration of protected areas, the global target is to have at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, under some form of protection by each country. ANALYSIS: MONGOLIA PLANS RUINOUS BLUE HORSE WATER 9 hours ago · The Mongolian government has set its sights on a major expansion of heavy industry in the Gobi desert. Supported by development banks, corporations and Chinese demand, over the coming years southern Mongolia will become home to at least 20 mega projects, including eight coal mines, four coal CLEANING THE GANGA: AN UNHOLY MESS Cleaning the Ganga: an unholy mess. The first national dialogue on the Ganga, which provides water to 40% of India’s 1.2 billion people, highlighted the complexities involved in cleaning one of the world's most toxic rivers. We encourage you to republish The Third Pole articles, online or in print, under the Creative Commons license. BHUTAN CONSIDERS EXPLOITING FORESTS TO OFFSET PANDEMIC January 29, 2021. Just two countries in the world are carbon-negative: Suriname in South America and Bhutan. But Bhutan, famous for its commitment to conservation, is now considering exploiting its rich forest resources. The coronavirus pandemic has battered the economy: a report from Bhutan’s central bank says it could shrink by 1.1% thisyear.
REVIEW OF ‘KUMTOR’: KYRGYZ GOLD, CANADIAN GREED AND A In their documentary Kumtor, Brigitte Noël and Matt Joycey, a Canadian journalist-director duo, take us to one place on the planet where this does not hold true: Kyrgyzstan. Kumtor, a French-language documentary film released in 2020, tells the story of the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan, which is owned and operated by the Canadian mining OPINION: TAKING STOCK OF BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION IN …TRANSLATE THISPAGE
Biodiversity – the diversity of ecosystems, species and genes – underpins the processes that make life possible. Biodiversity is the basis of our livelihoods and economy. At least 40% of the world’s economy and 80% of the needs of the poor are derived from biological resources. In the HinduTHE THIRD POLE
The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges. AIR POLLUTION ADDS TO INDIA’S PANDEMIC PAIN Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma since childhood, Verma was dreading the impact. Instead, the 47-year-old homeopathic medicine practitioner was surprised to find that she was largely in better shape during the PANDEMIC LESSONS FOR INDIA’S ELECTRIC MOBILITY June 2, 2021. India’s electric mobility ambitions have suffered a major setback due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vehicle manufacturers concede that with core business being heavily impacted, electrification will take a backseat for now. But they remain firm on the long-term goal of promoting cleaner alternatives to fossil fuel-powered vehicles. SUNDERLAL BAHUGUNA: AN ACTIVIST’S LIFELONG STRUGGLE FOR Many eulogies have poured in after Sunderlal Bahuguna, 94, died of Covid-19 on 21 May. Official tributes carefully skirt around the core of his lifelong struggle to save the Himalayas from logging and short-sighted ‘development’ policies. Others refer to his futile attempts to stop the GANGA RIVER MORE POLLUTED THAN EVER, DESPITE GOVERNMENT’S May 12, 2021. In July 2014, soon after the Narendra Modi government took over, an unlikely mix of two ministers, technical experts, environment activists and Hindu priests, among others, pondered over ways to clean up and rejuvenate India’s largest and holiest river, the Ganga. This was not the first attempt at tackling pollution of theGanga
CAMBODIAN FARMERS CAN NO LONGER RELY ON THE TONLE SAP LAKE Yoeut, 52, is a lifelong resident of the Baran district in Cambodia’s northwest Battambang province. Her livelihood has always depended on the natural flooding of Tonle Sap lake and its tributaries, but climate change, extreme weather and upstream dams have upended this. “Last year, the crops just wouldn’t grow thesame.
PLASTIC POLLUTION IN ASIA'S TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS HUGE POTENTIAL OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY IN THE HIMALAYAS STILL July 31, 2014. December 10, 2020. Hundreds of gigawatts of geothermal energy remain locked up in the Himalayas because of environmental considerations and lack of investment in research, say international geologists. “I hope lessons from elsewhere in the world can help harness these resources in the Himalayas,” Geo Moore, a geologist atthe
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FARAKKA BARRAGE: “EVEN STATES IN THE SAME COUNTRY FIGHT Even states in the same country fight over common rivers. For instance, the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have been fighting over sharing the waters of Krishna and other rivers. Andhra is the lower riparian like Bangladesh and Telangana is the upper riparian like India. Andhra fears that Telangana will not give itwater from the
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The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges. AIR POLLUTION ADDS TO INDIA’S PANDEMIC PAIN Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma since childhood, Verma was dreading the impact. Instead, the 47-year-old homeopathic medicine practitioner was surprised to find that she was largely in better shape during the PANDEMIC LESSONS FOR INDIA’S ELECTRIC MOBILITY June 2, 2021. India’s electric mobility ambitions have suffered a major setback due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vehicle manufacturers concede that with core business being heavily impacted, electrification will take a backseat for now. But they remain firm on the long-term goal of promoting cleaner alternatives to fossil fuel-powered vehicles. SUNDERLAL BAHUGUNA: AN ACTIVIST’S LIFELONG STRUGGLE FOR Many eulogies have poured in after Sunderlal Bahuguna, 94, died of Covid-19 on 21 May. Official tributes carefully skirt around the core of his lifelong struggle to save the Himalayas from logging and short-sighted ‘development’ policies. Others refer to his futile attempts to stop the GANGA RIVER MORE POLLUTED THAN EVER, DESPITE GOVERNMENT’S May 12, 2021. In July 2014, soon after the Narendra Modi government took over, an unlikely mix of two ministers, technical experts, environment activists and Hindu priests, among others, pondered over ways to clean up and rejuvenate India’s largest and holiest river, the Ganga. This was not the first attempt at tackling pollution of theGanga
CAMBODIAN FARMERS CAN NO LONGER RELY ON THE TONLE SAP LAKE Yoeut, 52, is a lifelong resident of the Baran district in Cambodia’s northwest Battambang province. Her livelihood has always depended on the natural flooding of Tonle Sap lake and its tributaries, but climate change, extreme weather and upstream dams have upended this. “Last year, the crops just wouldn’t grow thesame.
PLASTIC POLLUTION IN ASIA'S TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS HUGE POTENTIAL OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY IN THE HIMALAYAS STILL July 31, 2014. December 10, 2020. Hundreds of gigawatts of geothermal energy remain locked up in the Himalayas because of environmental considerations and lack of investment in research, say international geologists. “I hope lessons from elsewhere in the world can help harness these resources in the Himalayas,” Geo Moore, a geologist atthe
COAL ASH IS A SERIOUS HAZARD TO OUR HEALTH AND THESEE MORE ONTHETHIRDPOLE.NET
FARAKKA BARRAGE: “EVEN STATES IN THE SAME COUNTRY FIGHT Even states in the same country fight over common rivers. For instance, the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have been fighting over sharing the waters of Krishna and other rivers. Andhra is the lower riparian like Bangladesh and Telangana is the upper riparian like India. Andhra fears that Telangana will not give itwater from the
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The Third Pole is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges. PLASTIC POLLUTION IN ASIA'S TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS The Third Pole. March 30, 2021. April 10, 2021. The vast majority of plastic waste enters transboundary rivers from land, making plastic pollution both a local and regional problem requiring multi-level cooperation. According to research, 90% of river-transported plastic in our oceans can be traced back to just 10 rivers – eight of whichare
NEPAL’S MILLION DOLLAR TREES BRING HOPE AND FEAR Soon after we started to ascend towards Timal village from Bhakunde Besi — a small valley located in central Nepal fifty kilometres from Kathmandu – our car ended stuck on the road ravaged by monsoon rains. Our driver cautioned us about going further, but we persevered.As I
BIHAR FARMERS PROTEST FLOOD EMBANKMENTS TO PROTECT 7 hours ago · Days before the monsoon hits the eastern Indian state of Bihar, farmers wait for rains and floods with trepidation.This year, however, farmers Rita Devi, 63, and Kanchan Kumari, 45, worry about a new threat. What keeps them up at night is the loss of fertile land, and the possible displacement they would face should the government go ahead with the plan to construct a new embankment on the LANDSCAPES OF DAURIA: A WETLAND REFUGE ON THE RUSSIA The ever-changing Torey Lakes are a wetland paradise. Two large lakes and more than 300 smaller bodies of water in the Torey Depression support 305 bird species and 42 mammal species, as well as reptiles, amphibians, fish and more than 590 species of insects. Many of CHINA’S PLANS FOR SALWEEN DAMS IN LIMBO IN POST-COUP MYANMAR Plans for seven Chinese-built dams along the Salween River have been a source of friction for Myanmar and China for some time. Prior to the military coup on 1 February, the elected party the National League for Democracy and grassroots campaigners were CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING INDIA LESS LIVEABLE Overall, climate change has already made India hotter and drier since the middle of the 20th century, with more droughts, cloudbursts, floods, rising seas, stronger cyclones and a change in the monsoon pattern. “Human-induced climate change is expected to continue apace during the 21st Century,” the scientists fear. ROHINGYA LIVE IN FEAR OF CYCLONES ON BHASHAN CHAR ISLAND Around 18,500 Rohingya refugees on Bhashan Char heaved a sigh of relief as Cyclone Yaas veered in the Bay of Bengal and hit the Odisha-West Bengal coast on 26 May. But they know they are living on the most cyclone-vulnerable spot of the world’s most cyclone-prone sea: an island at the mouth of an estuary, whose funnelling effect magnifies the impacts of the deadly storms. ANALYSIS: MONGOLIA PLANS RUINOUS BLUE HORSE WATER All this heavy industry demands a lot of water. A report analysing the gap in supply and demand, sponsored by the World Bank, was published in January. It predicts that by 2040 demand for water in the south Gobi region may increase by two-and-a-half times, which will exceed supply by more than 20 million cubic metres annually (about 8,000 Olympic swimming pools). FROM PEST TO CUISINE, THE MAJULI BEETLE A beetle menace, brought about by climate change, has been brought under control by an ingenious method: catching and eating the beetlesthemselves!
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This website uses the following additional cookies: Google Inc. - Google operates Google Ads, Display & Video 360, and Google Ad Manager. These services allow advertisers to plan, execute and analyze marketing programs with greater ease and efficiency, while enabling publishers to maximize their returns from online advertising. AIR POLLUTION ADDS TO INDIA’S PANDEMIC PAIN Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma since childhood, Verma was dreading the impact. Instead, the 47-year-old homeopathic medicine practitioner was surprised to find that she was largely in better shape during the BHUTAN USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO BOOST AGRICULTURE In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhutan initially banned food imports. The ban was soon lifted as officials realised it was unfeasible. But with the closure of Bhutan’s borders with India, the country’s food imports have plummeted.A combination of a shortage of labour to handle the goods, as well as the difficulty of sterilising food products, has meant that imports have slowed to a PLASTIC CHOKES DHAKA'S DRAINAGE Plastic bag manufacturers in Bangladesh may soon have a new job at hand. Beside manufacturing the widely popular packaging material, they might also have to collect the waste generated from their products because thoughtless usage and heedless disposal of waste have become a major environmental and health hazard.PANDEMIC EFFECT
SDG 6.1. The aim of SDG 6.1 was to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. While this is a difficult target, the growing importance of public health due to Covid-19 may encourage governments to prioritise the COAL ASH IS A SERIOUS HAZARD TO OUR HEALTH AND THESEE MORE ONTHETHIRDPOLE.NET
BHUTAN STRUGGLES WITH LOCAL WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGES Every other day, Phub Dem, from the remote village of Phangyul in western Bhutan, travels up to three kilometres to fetch drinking water. Sometimes she gets a lift in her neighbour’s tractor but most of the time she has to walk. FLASH FLOODS THE DANGEROUS NEW NORMAL IN BHUTAN Cloudbursts in the monsoon, glacial lakes bursting through in the summer, little water for hydropower the rest of the time – the country faces multiple threats due to climate change NEW STUDY SHOWS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF CHINESE DAMS ON Large dams on the Mekong River in China’s Yunnan Province have considerable impacts on downstream river flows, new research by myself and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland and published recently in the Journal of Hydrology has shown. The Mekong originates in China where it is known as the Lancang, before flowing through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. PHOTO STORY: THE CHINA-BUILT RAILWAY CUTTING THROUGH LAOS The USD 6 billion railway is another part of China’s expansive Belt and Road Initiative, a series of mostly Chinese-financed infrastructure projects aroundTHE THIRD POLE
This website uses the following additional cookies: Google Inc. - Google operates Google Ads, Display & Video 360, and Google Ad Manager. These services allow advertisers to plan, execute and analyze marketing programs with greater ease and efficiency, while enabling publishers to maximize their returns from online advertising. AIR POLLUTION ADDS TO INDIA’S PANDEMIC PAIN Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma since childhood, Verma was dreading the impact. Instead, the 47-year-old homeopathic medicine practitioner was surprised to find that she was largely in better shape during the BHUTAN USES COVID-19 CRISIS TO BOOST AGRICULTURE In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhutan initially banned food imports. The ban was soon lifted as officials realised it was unfeasible. But with the closure of Bhutan’s borders with India, the country’s food imports have plummeted.A combination of a shortage of labour to handle the goods, as well as the difficulty of sterilising food products, has meant that imports have slowed to a PLASTIC CHOKES DHAKA'S DRAINAGE Plastic bag manufacturers in Bangladesh may soon have a new job at hand. Beside manufacturing the widely popular packaging material, they might also have to collect the waste generated from their products because thoughtless usage and heedless disposal of waste have become a major environmental and health hazard.PANDEMIC EFFECT
SDG 6.1. The aim of SDG 6.1 was to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. While this is a difficult target, the growing importance of public health due to Covid-19 may encourage governments to prioritise the COAL ASH IS A SERIOUS HAZARD TO OUR HEALTH AND THESEE MORE ONTHETHIRDPOLE.NET
BHUTAN STRUGGLES WITH LOCAL WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGES Every other day, Phub Dem, from the remote village of Phangyul in western Bhutan, travels up to three kilometres to fetch drinking water. Sometimes she gets a lift in her neighbour’s tractor but most of the time she has to walk. FLASH FLOODS THE DANGEROUS NEW NORMAL IN BHUTAN Cloudbursts in the monsoon, glacial lakes bursting through in the summer, little water for hydropower the rest of the time – the country faces multiple threats due to climate change NEW STUDY SHOWS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF CHINESE DAMS ON Large dams on the Mekong River in China’s Yunnan Province have considerable impacts on downstream river flows, new research by myself and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland and published recently in the Journal of Hydrology has shown. The Mekong originates in China where it is known as the Lancang, before flowing through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. PHOTO STORY: THE CHINA-BUILT RAILWAY CUTTING THROUGH LAOS The USD 6 billion railway is another part of China’s expansive Belt and Road Initiative, a series of mostly Chinese-financed infrastructure projects around TAKING STOCK OF BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION IN THE HIMALAYAS A recent policy dialogue and stocktaking showed some progress in protecting biodiversity in the Hindu Kush Himalayas region. On the declaration of protected areas, the global target is to have at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, under some form of protection by each country. LANDSCAPES OF DAURIA: A WETLAND REFUGE ON THE RUSSIA 19 hours ago · The ever-changing Torey Lakes are a wetland paradise. Two large lakes and more than 300 smaller bodies of water in the Torey Depression support 305 bird species and 42 mammal species, as well as reptiles, amphibians, fish and more than 590 CHINA’S PLANS FOR SALWEEN DAMS IN LIMBO IN POST-COUP MYANMAR 22 hours ago · Plans for seven Chinese-built dams along the Salween River have been a source of friction for Myanmar and China for some time. Prior to the military coup on 1 February, the elected party the National League for Democracy and grassroots campaigners werePANDEMIC EFFECT
SDG 6.1. The aim of SDG 6.1 was to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. While this is a difficult target, the growing importance of public health due to Covid-19 may encourage governments to prioritise the INDIA'S WATERWAYS AND THE GOVERNMENT'S UNKEPT PROMISES 1 day ago · In March 2016, India’s Parliament enacted the National Waterways Act, 2016, creating 106 new waterways on many rivers, river-stretches, estuaries, creeks, backwaters and canals in the country. This was part of a renewed push for development of large scale commercial shipping and navigation on CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING INDIA LESS LIVEABLE With industry and transport restarting after the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, India and the world have a great chance to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Failure will mean a country with worse heatwaves, droughts, cloudbursts, floods and a CHURNA ISLAND: DIVING BAN NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE PAKISTAN’S Nestled among the coral formations that surround its rocky shore, Churna Island lies off the Pakistan coast at the border of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Its coastline and reefs provide a vital habitat and breeding ground for Pakistan’s marine biodiversity, including beautiful species such as ANALYSIS: MONGOLIA PLANS RUINOUS BLUE HORSE WATER 1 day ago · All this heavy industry demands a lot of water. A report analysing the gap in supply and demand, sponsored by the World Bank, was published in January. It predicts that by 2040 demand for water in the south Gobi region may increase by two-and-a-half times, which will exceed supply by more than 20 million cubic metres annually (about 8,000 Olympic swimming pools). CLEANING THE GANGA: AN UNHOLY MESS Ganga Manthan, India’s first summit on the revered national river, saw multiple stakeholders, including religious leaders, technical experts and environmentalists, help draw a roadmap to clean one of the most toxic waterways in the world.However, the July 7 event also fore-grounded the complexities and politics involved in cleaning the fabled river whose pollution has long vexed IS CHINA NUDGING TURKMENISTAN’S GREEN TRANSITION? For Turkmenistan, China is the biggest concern. In March 2020, China issued a force majeure notice to halt supplies. According to Kazakhstan-based journalist Chris Rickleton, “the value of imports from Turkmenistan – which comprise almost exclusively natural gas – shrank by 30% in dollar terms compared to 2019”.Despite this, Turkmenistan still sees China as a trustworthy partner.THE THIRD POLE
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CHANGING WEATHER PATTERNS SPELL DOOM FOR UNPREPARED PAKISTAN FARMERSMarch 13, 2020
Inconsistent rainfall can be disastrous for winter and summer crops in Pakistan, where many farmers are still unaware of how to adapt toclimate change
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INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES LEFT TO FIGHT ASSAM FLOODS ALONEMarch 12, 2020
The Mising community living on riverbanks in Assam finds itself abandoned as floods become more severe and more erratic due to climatechange
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HUMANITY’S LAST CHANCE TO SAVE BIODIVERSITY?March 11, 2020
If we want real biodiversity targets then we need to address problems with the existing negotiation draft for the Kunming biodiversity talks, argues Peng Kui*
BANGLADESH TO DECLARE WATER EMERGENCY IN NORTHWESTMarch 10, 2020
Authorities hope to force farmers to shift away from growing water guzzling rice in a race to save depleting water tables*
FRIGHTENING PARALLELS BETWEEN NRC-EXCLUDED IN ASSAM AND ROHINGYAREFUGEES
March 09, 2020
In both cases, the poor people, ecosystems, and regional cooperationare the victims
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GENDER AND ENERGY POVERTY IN THE HINDU KUSH HIMALAYASMarch 08, 2020
240 million people live in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, many of them energy poor, with the most impact on women, we need to change our forms of development to deal with this, argues Aditya Bastola*
CHANGING WEATHER PATTERNS SPELL DOOM FOR UNPREPARED PAKISTAN FARMERSMarch 13, 2020
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INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES LEFT TO FIGHT ASSAM FLOODS ALONEMarch 12, 2020
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HUMANITY’S LAST CHANCE TO SAVE BIODIVERSITY?March 11, 2020
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BANGLADESH TO DECLARE WATER EMERGENCY IN NORTHWESTMarch 10, 2020
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FRIGHTENING PARALLELS BETWEEN NRC-EXCLUDED IN ASSAM AND ROHINGYAREFUGEES
March 09, 2020
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GENDER AND ENERGY POVERTY IN THE HINDU KUSH HIMALAYASMarch 08, 2020
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THE RIVERS BASINS AND GLACIERS OF THE THIRD POLE - ZOOM IN TO EXPLOREIN DETAIL
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GANGA: AN UNHOLY MESSRead the Report
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ENERGY
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GROWING OPPOSITION TO DAM ON CHENAB TRIBUTARYOctober 28, 2019
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SUBSIDIES KILLING RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN NEPALAugust 05, 2019
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A GLOF THREATENS BHUTAN RIGHT NOWJuly 10, 2019
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MANY QUESTIONS AS BHUTAN PLANS BIG DAM WITH RESERVOIRJune 24, 2019
HYDROPOWER HOTSPOTS - SCROLL OVER THE MAP TO EXPLORE STORIES FROMACROSS THE REGION
CLIMATE CHANGE
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CLIMATE THREAT LOOMS BUT NOT A PRIORITY FOR MEDIA IN PAKISTANFebruary 27, 2020
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AT THE LAHOOTI MELO IT IS ‘EGO, NOT ECO’February 25, 2020
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IMPLEMENTING THE BUDGET WITH A NEXUS APPROACHFebruary 14, 2020
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BEST OF 2019: WHAT ROLE FOR CHINA AND INDIA IN THE ARCTIC?December 24, 2019
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BEST OF 2019: DROUGHT AND WAR BRING AFGHANISTAN TO CRISISDecember 23, 2019
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AVALANCHES AND CLIMATE CHANGE WILL BURY SOLDIERS IN KASHMIRDecember 18, 2019
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A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
December 12, 2019
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NO MONEY FOR CLIMATE LOSS AND DAMAGEDecember 10, 2019
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CLIMATE REFUGEES STRIPPED OF CITIZENSHIP IN ASSAMNovember 08, 2019
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RIVER DIVERSION PLAN TESTS NEPAL’S FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONNovember 01, 2019
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VIDEO: THE VOICES NO LONGER DROWNED BY THE KOSIOctober 18, 2019
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SPRING-FED RIVERS IN THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS DRYING UPFebruary 06, 2019
FLOODS
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PATNA DROWNS AS CLIMATE CHANGE MEETS CORRUPTIONOctober 07, 2019
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EXTREME RAINFALL AND BAD INFRASTRUCTURE LEAD TO EXTREME INDIAN FLOODSAugust 23, 2019
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FLAWED EMBANKMENT STRATEGY CONVERTS BIHAR INTO WATERY GRAVEAugust 12, 2019
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RESTORE PAKISTAN’S RIVERS, HANDLE FLOODS, DROUGHTS AND CLIMATECHANGE
July 12, 2019
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A GLOF THREATENS BHUTAN RIGHT NOWJuly 10, 2019
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WHAT USE IS DREDGING THE BRAHMAPUTRA?May 20, 2019
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WHY THE INDIAN OCEAN IS SPAWNING STRONG AND DEADLY TROPICAL CYCLONESMay 15, 2019
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NEW BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED KOSI RAISES FLOOD RISKApril 04, 2019
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