OOSKA NEWS | May 29, 2013 Singapore’s water management is a model for the rest of the world, but while much has been done, there is still room for improvement, according to Drs. Asit Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, two of the authors of … Read More
OOSKA NEWS | November 29, 2012 In 1969, Singapore’s then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew initiated a plan to clean up the polluted Singapore River, focusing on the removal or relocation of polluting sources and waterway clean-up. Over the course of … Read More
Megha Bahree WALL STREET JOURNAL | April 9, 2012 India’s water supplies might be drying up and the government is finally waking up to that fact. The question remains, though, if its efforts will be sufficient to avert a possible … Read More
Jade Lee-Duffy and Karen Emmons DEVELOPMENT ASIA | March 31, 2012 After a heavy rainstorm in June, farmers around the townships of Qujing City in Yunnan Province in the southwest People’s Republic of China’s (PRC), woke to a disturbing scene. … Read More
Nancy Pick IMPELLER XYLEM | January 26, 2012 Israel, ever inventive in the face of water scarcity, is now jockeying to become a center of water technology on an international scale. A hot spot for start-up companies, the country has … Read More
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray THE TELEGRAPH | January 7, 2012 New Year’s Day brought flesh-and-blood confirmation of the late Nani A. Palkhivala’s outrageously politically incorrect claim that freed from India, an Indian can buy from a Scotsman, sell to a Jew … Read More
An encouraging model suggests urban Asia’s water problems could be easily fixed THE ECONOMIST | March 24, 2011 PIGS rootle fastidiously through the foothills of the mountain of rubbish dumped at Tuol Sen Chey on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, … Read More
Billions of people still lack access to this most basic necessity. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Asit K. Biswas The Wall Street Journal | March 21, 2011 World Water Day, which takes place Tuesday, may not raise much interest in a country like … Read More
Megha Bahree FORBES | December 28, 2009 Asit Biswas loves to tell the story of the Phnom Penh Water Authority. It was 1993 and a new manager, Ek Sonn Chan, had been appointed to the then bankrupt utility. Of the … Read More
