Insights from Walter Wang

Despite its ongoing struggles with waters, the state remains a key supplier of specialty crops to the Asian market.

The unending headache that is Kumtor continues. This time the conflict is over the mine's environmental impact.

Although many communities still struggle, Nepal is making real progress on providing access to water.

Can the decades-long tensions over access to diminishing water resources ever be solved?

The Diplomat speaks with Iran’s deputy minister of Energy, about the country’s attempts to overcome a serious water crisis.

Insider updates from a recent conference shed more light on water politics.

A clash between reality and public sentiment in Pakistan on the water issue?

Too hazardous to touch in some places, China’s Yellow River has been choked by pollution and sediment. Joe Lamar reports on officials’ struggles to clean up the ‘Mother River’ and stem demand from the country’s ever thirstier provinces.

The Citarum River is Indonesia’s lifeline. But polluted and poisoned, it now poses serious health risks. Elise Potaka investigates the problem–and possible solutions.

Pushing the long grass aside, Phorn pointed to a marker stone. ‘The Chinese workers came and put this here,’ he said.