By Cecilia Tortajada and Nancy Contreras-Moreno, Chapter of the book: Water Institutions: Policies, Performance and Prospects, edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2005, Springer, Berlin, pages 99-130.… Read More
Diciembre 1, 2004 Durante los últimos 25 años, cientos de millones de dólares han sido gastados en la organización de foros mundiales para discutir aspectos relacionados con el recurso agua. Sin embargo, y a pesar de las enormes cantidades de recursos … Read More
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October 27, 2004 | Istanbul, Turkey The main objective of the meeting was to debate impartially, comprehensively, and objectively the positive and negative impacts of large dams based on facts, figures, and authoritative analyses. These in-depth case studies were expected … 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
September 2004
Special Thematic Issue: Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) Programme… Read More
August 17, 2004 | Stockholm, Sweden This workshop was held during the 2004 Stockholm Water Symposium. Sustainable groundwater management requires adequate assessments of resource characteristics. In many rural areas, groundwater tables are being lowered due to extensive pumping, which is often … Read More
August 16, 2004 | Stockholm, Sweden At a full-day seminar during the World Water Week in Stockholm, key features of megacities from the developing world were penetrated. According to a United Nations definition, a megacity is a city having a … Read More
By Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, 2004. Article published in World Water. … Read More
July 31, 2004
The Third World Centre for Water Management is a knowledge-oriented institute. It mainly focusses on knowledge generation, knowledge synthesis and knowledge dissemination.… Read More