News - Asia

Indonesia's 2026 dry season is peaking with emergency water deliveries to more than 7,100 households, as El Niño and a developing Indian Ocean Dipole threaten to deepen drought across the archipelago amid broader South Asian groundwater depletion.

Metro Manila's Angat Dam remains well below the level regulators say is needed by year-end, with PAGASA warning that a persistent Super El Niño could push the city into a water supply crisis in 2027.