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
Professor Biswas is awarded the Stockholm Water Prize for his outstanding and multi-faceted contributions to global water resource issues, including research, education and awareness, water management, human and international relations in both developed and developing countries.… Read More
Sahana Singh ASIAN WATER | July 31, 2004 The Centre is a knowledge-oriented institute. It mainly focusses on knowledge generation, knowledge synthesis and knowledge dissemination. A significant raison d’etre for the establishment of the Centre in 2000 was that a … Read More
