Communications & Media

The Third World Centre for Water Management recently conducted a study to evaluate the impact of global mega conferences which have become so common in recent years. Do these mega conferences actually achieve anything or are they merely global extravaganzas?… Read More

While integrated river basin management has become a popular paradigm in Latin America, an objective analysis will indicate that countries have generally failed to use this concept to increase the efficiency of water management in the region on a sustained basis.… Read More

Just because a paradigm is conceptu­ally or intellectually attractive and most international institutions are promot­ing it does not mean that it can be oper­ational in the entire world.… Read More

Proponents and opponents of dams have both taken extreme and opposite positions. But does their debate withstand scientific scrutiny?… Read More

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board of Sri Lanka is likely to be a good example of an evolving paradigm of institutional arrangements for water supply and wastewater management of the future in the developing world.… Read More

Effluent discharges fees provide a powerful incentive to reduce wastewater discharges – if only wastewater management laws in Mexico were clear, consistent and enforced.… Read More

The Aswan High Dam across the mighty river Nile is perhaps one of the most controversial of the existing big dams in the world. Political, economic and environmental arguments have been raised against it ever since its construction in the early 1960s. Asit K. Biswas, after a careful evaluation of the dam’s impact on Egypt, concludes that it has been overwhelmingly beneficial to the country.… Read More