Tehrans water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian cities such as Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad have faced similar stress, ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

Nepal is now facing its fourth consecutive rainless winter. Winter precipitation has failed since 2022, and the Department of ...