January 1, 2014 Water management in much of the world is at a critical juncture. Even when it has to fulfil an essential role in promoting development and reducing poverty at the national and sub-national levels, water is often scarce, … Read More
January 1, 2014 India lacks energy. In 2011, almost 300 million people —25 per cent of the country’s population— had no access to electricity. Even 65 years after independence, only nine states —Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, … Read More
January 1, 2012 Without any doubt, the High Aswan Dam in Egypt has been the most well-known dam in the world in the past fi ve decades. From Argentina to Australia and from Tokyo to Timbuktu, professionals in water management … Read More
January 1, 2012 From time immemorial, human beings have settled in the fertile plains of major rivers like the Nile in Africa, Euphrates-Tigris in Mesopotamia, and the Indo-Gangetic plain in the Indian subcontinent. In these areas, floods and droughts had … Read More
January 1, 2012 The Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey has historically been a plateau with low productivity. Although rich in water, land and human resources, the region has lagged behind the rest of the country in terms of development. The … Read More
June 1, 2010 This chapter describes the implications of global change for water and food security, focusing on the precarious situation of the poor in global change processes. While overall economic growth is reaching an increasing number of poor, and … Read More
January 1, 2009 None of the water-related global megaconferences has ever been evaluated independently, objectively and comprehensively. Their impacts and cost-effectiveness are now basically unknown, even though their costs have generally escalated very rapidly with each succeeding event. It should, … Read More
January 1, 2009 As the human population has grown, the global food requirements have increased as well and with it the requirement to water needed to produce the necessary food. At present, most of the global water use is accounted … Read More
Enero 1, 2009 Cada vez más se considera que el agua es la sangre del planeta y, ciertamente, en este momento no sería una exageración decir que sin una gestión eficiente del agua el futuro desarrollo social y económico del … Read More
January 1, 2009 The concept of megaconferences is not new. However, like most concepts, the approach has evolved considerably over time. The process was started during the early 1970s, somewhat inadvertently, by the United Nations, with its Conference on the … Read More