Decoding Singapore’s food security
September 24, 2020
Ensuring food security and preventing shortages despite importing most of its food has been one of Singapore’s successes in its handling of the pandemic.… Read More
September 24, 2020
Ensuring food security and preventing shortages despite importing most of its food has been one of Singapore’s successes in its handling of the pandemic.… Read More
September 17, 2020
A comprehensive strategy to manage floods in Singapore would comprise engineering, green and digital solutions, say Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada.… Read More
September 15, 2020
India’s National Water Policy is meant to provide a definite course of action on water management, ensuring the country’s population of nearly 1.3 billion and industries have access to adequate water for various uses.… Read More
September 15, 2020
Intelligent ways to use green areas, such as parks, pathways, and empty lots are the key to urban renewal, and one city in Mexico is sowing the seeds of progress.… Read More
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Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, 2009, Third World Centre for Water Management, Research Report.… Read More
July 29, 2020
India is one of the world’s largest food producers. The country is also home to the largest population of hungry people and one-third of the world’s malnourished children. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these conditions worse.… Read More
By Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2020. Article published in Water International, Volume 45, Number 5, pages 441-442.… Read More
July 27, 2020
South China is battling a serious flood problem, while this can never be completely prevented, with smart policy, the effects of floods can be blunted.… Read More
July 15, 2020
Floods cannot be prevented or completely controlled. But their impacts can be significantly mitigated, for which both infrastructure and soft solutions are essential. … Read More