Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment
Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Dogan Altinbilek and Asit K. Biswas, Springer, Berlin, 2012, 407 pages.… Read More
Cleaning of the Singapore River and Kallang Basin in Singapore: Economic, Social, and Environmental Dimensions
By Yugal Kishore Joshi, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2012. Article published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 647-658.… Read More
Cleaning up the Singapore River: A model for Asia?
November 29, 2012
Other countries can take from Singapore’s experience the philosophy and process for cleaning up the river.… Read More
Will China run out of water by 2030?
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
Cleaning of the Singapore River and Kallang Basin in Singapore: Human and Environmental Dimensions
By Yugal Kishore Joshi, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2012. Article published in AMBIO, Volume 41, Issue 7, pages 777-781.… Read More
Yamuna, Ganga clean-up: Fact or fiction?
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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Mismanagement in Indian power sector
Asit K. Biswas analyses the policy paralysis that besets electricity generation, impacting economic and social development in a big way.… Read More
Connecting the policy dots in food, energy and water
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
5Qs with Third World Centre for Water Management’s Asit Biswas
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