South Asia’s water crisis

The UI Podcast

South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, will see their homes disappear with rising water levels in the coming decades. What’s the way forward? We’ve talked to Henrik Chetan Aspengren, acting head for the Asia program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Phu Doma Lama researcher at the Division of Risk Management and Society Safety at Lund University and affiliated to SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies Network, and Aditi Mukherji from the International Water Management Institute in New Delhi. Read more about SAI: https://www.ui.se/english/research/asia/the-south-asia-initiative/ Producer: Julia Wiræus