January 7, 2013
All over the world people are saying, “We have not got enough water and thus we have a water crisis.” However, the main problem is not physical scarcity of water, but its continued mismanagement.… Read More
January 3, 2013
In recent years water has been receiving considerable attention from the global media, policy-makers and the general public. However, this attention has not always been on the most pressing water problems that the world is facing at present or likely to face in the coming decades.… Read More
Januar 2013
Mit dem Hydrologen Asit Biswas spricht Martin Eiermann über gefälschte UN-Statistiken und die Möglichkeiten, unsere Ressourcen effizienter zu nutzen.… Read More
Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Dogan Altinbilek and Asit K. Biswas, Springer, Berlin, 2012, 407 pages.… Read More
November 29, 2012
Other countries can take from Singapore’s experience the philosophy and process for cleaning up the river.… Read More
November 29, 2012
China’s ambitions are high. By 2020, it aims to double its 2010 GDP and per capita income of urban and rural residents both. China’s economic track record has been impressive.… Read More
November 9, 2012
Since 1994, enormous quantities of polluted water have continued to flow in river Yamuna, and also in all the Indian rivers in or around urban settlements. This is costing the country hundreds of crores of rupees every year in social, economic and health costs.
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Asit K. Biswas analyses the policy paralysis that besets electricity generation, impacting economic and social development in a big way.… Read More
October 19, 2012
How are the career prospects of a pig farmer in Devon, Britain linked to petrol prices, linked to American soyabeans? Answer: interrelationship between food, energy and water, which the world has ignored for centuries.… Read More
October 16, 2012
The major use of water continues to be for the agricultural sector which accounts for nearly 70 percent of all global water use. All water uses are important, and all are essential. We thus need to make all types of water uses increasingly more efficient.… Read More