International Workshop on Impacts of Large Dams
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
Evaluation of River Basin Management: The Mexican Case
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
Volume 20, Issue 3
September 2004
Special Thematic Issue: Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) Programme… Read More
Workshop on Sustainable Groundwater Management in Urban and Rural Areas
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
International Seminar on Water Management in Megacities
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
Water Management for new mega-cities
By Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, 2004. Article published in World Water. … Read More
A unique Think Tank offers fresh perspective
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
Challenging prevailing wisdom
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
Integrated Water Resources Management: A Reassessment
Asit K. Biswas, 2004. Article published in Water International, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 248-256.… Read More