This article provides an analysis of India’s progress on the safe water and sanitation access targets of the Millennium Development Goals. Despite significant reported progress on water access, a majority of the population do not have access to sanitation and resort to open defecation.

This paper reviews the drivers and consequences of India’s groundwater crisis. Groundwater is fundamental to the nation’s water security and the degradation of this resource is a threat to economic and social development.

This article surveys the state of water pollution in Asia. The authors discuss the various causes of deteriorating water quality, arguing that the pace and scale of the policy response must increase rapidly.