Dhulikhel

Pani, Pahar – Delhi Exhibitions

India Habitat Centre and Jor Bagh Metro Station


  Jor Bagh Metro Station Exhibition Preview 16th March – 29th June   India Habitat Centre Photography Exhibition 6th April – 6th May

Pani, Pahar – Guardian Article

Sacred, Life Affirming and Disappearing


Published in the Guardian on December 27th, 2017 – LINK HERE Rapid urbanisation, dwindling groundwater reserves and changing rain patterns are driving a water crisis in the lower Himalayas of India and Nepal.  Photojournalist Toby Smith took part in a research project charting the shifting demands on this fragile landscape...

Sources

for drinking, domestic and agricultural use


Villages of the Himalayas depend on surface water

Political and Social

Water is not just physical systems


The delivery of water is not just about the construction of physical systems, but also creating suitable social and political infrastructures that can support the appropriation, management and distribution of resources to people. Creating water management systems that are environmentally sustainable and socially just requires the inclusion, participation and...

Pani, Pahar – Public Exhibition

Cambridge Festival of Ideas


Photography Exhibition

Votes for Water

Democracy in Dhulikhel


In May and June 2017, Nepal held its first local government elections since 1997, an outcome of far-reaching political changes that were galvanised by the disastrous 2015 earthquake. Our ESPA research started in Nepal in early 2014. In this period, we have observed and documented first-hand a series of...