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Maira Hayat was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for five months. Hayat's "research on the origins of the canal colonies and the specificities of irrigation water distribution in Pakistan’s Punjab aims to contribute to scholarship on agriculture in Pakistan."

Maira Hayat was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for five months. Hayat used the grant "to understand why a specific World Bank project failed and how Irrigation officials make sense of that failure."

Suneel Kumar was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on the Indus River and delta for two months. Kumar collected data through traveling to different creeks, villages, working with fishermen and interviewing multiple government and non-government officials.

Luther Obrock (University of Pennsylvania) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Obrock conducted research at the Punjab University in Lahore to support his research in Pakistan which "concentrates on the Indus River as a major conduit of elite groups between the twelfth and the...

Abdul Aijaz was a 2018-2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for eight months. "Focusing on the capture, transformation, control, and management of the Indus rivers, the project traces the co-constitutive relations between the rivers and the communities therein since the introduction...

Maira Hayat (University of Chicago) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan relating to water politics, specifically the community response to the New Lahore Ravi Megaproject

Abdul Aijaz (Indiana Universty) was a 2017 Short-Term Research Grant awardee who sought to explore the hydro-social relationships in colonial and post-colonial India.

Ahsan Kamal was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who performed research in Pakistan to study the resettlement programs as a result of dam constructions.

Mubbashir Rizvi was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan. Rizvi's research looks at "the planning of D.G Canal Project, the Colony Thal Textile Mill as two formative projects carried out by the Thal Development Authority."

Maira Hayat offers this critical analysis of the tensions relating to water use and local politics from an anthropological standpoint. Water use in Pakistan has become increasingly politicized as local governments attempt to navigate the needs of local cultivators and farmers while reconciling with...