Interviews

August 18, 2017
In conversation with Prof. Asit K. Biswas.… Read More

March 13, 2017
Companies are increasingly recognising that water is essential to the survival of their businesses and the private sector will come to play a bigger part in water management and provision in the future, says Asit Biswas, co-founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management.… Read More

March 11, 2017
50 per cent of Singapore’s water still comes from outside, PUB has been highly efficient, everything they have been able to do, they have done it, and so it’s now time for the population to play an active part, that is to use less water.… Read More

November 23, 2016
Some of the world’s most talented people are in academia, but academia doesn’t have much impact on what the world discusses or the policies that are implemented. We do not shape public debates.… Read More

November 16, 2016
Universities are neglecting their duty to engage in public debate on crucial policy issues. They are absorbed in the chase for global rankings that academic excellence is being judged on the basis of publications in high impact journals, rather than on contribution to society.… Read More

July 8, 2016
Water is scarce in many parts of the globe and will become scarcer unless we change our attitudes towards this most precious of natural resources.… Read More

March 21, 2016
People here taking free flow of clean water for granted.… Read More

March 8, 2016
The prospect of water scarcity is forcing businesses and households to rethink how they use water.… Read More

March 1, 2016
If you look at the media and technical literature, everybody says the world is running short of water. But, as companies like Nestlé realise, a simple back-of-envelope calculation shows we can solve the problem without any difficulty with the knowledge, technologies and funds we already have.… Read More

November 23, 2015
Can India draw some lessons from the Singaporean water story?… Read More