Sean Gallagher does a one-on-one interview about his work on desertification in China. Three days later, he joined a panel on the same station to discuss the issue with experts.
Control of the rivers that run through the region has always been a potential source of conflict between India and Pakistan.
A first hand account of the largest internal migration in Pakistan's history.
Reporters William Wheeler and Anna-Katarina Gravgaard reflect on their experiences in Nepal, India and Pakistan reporting on water.
Twenty million residents of Mumbai, India's largest city, are facing an acute water shortage, the BBC reports this week. Authorities have cut water supplies by 30 percent, due to shortages brought on by sporadic monsoon rainfall. If rain doesn't come soon, agricultural production is likely to suffer and urban residents are worried they will have to buy water from private tankers. If the drought continues, the lakes that feed the city's water supplies will continue to recede.
The Indus Waters Treaty has governed the sharing of a strategic river between India and Pakistan, but will this treaty survive the emerging water crisis?
At the crack of dawn when women and children in other parts of the world wake up to take warm showers and sit down to breakfast, women and children of Kakuma in Turkana Region of Kenya wake up to a different exercise: to walk for miles in the hunt for water. Upon their arrival at the "water source" the real work begins, as they dig the ground for water in the essentially dry gulch that goes by the name of Tarach River.
For the mountain people of the Langtang region, the recession of the Himalayan glaciers is an unexplained fact of life.
Reporting from an Tibetan exile community in Nepal on renewable energy.
Reporting summary on a trip to Islamabad to report on the status of the Indus water treaty.
In April 2009, British photojournalist Sean Gallagher traveled 4000km through Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang documenting China's struggle with desertification. An exhibit of "China's Growing Sands" will be opening on July 4, at 6pm at Café Zarah, on 42 Gulou Dongdajie (8403 9807) and will run through August 5. The opening, which is open to all, will include a 15-minute multimedia presentation by Gallagher. The Beijinger asked Gallagher a few questions about his work:
What inspired you to take on this project?
The streets of Boudha have turned into a muddy puddle as monsoon and sewer water mix while frantic community members work to lay down pipes before the waters rise over their feet.
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