Papers

By Yahua Wang, Tingting Wan and Asit K. Biswas, 2017. Article published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, pages 1-16.… Read More

September 20, 2017 Rapidly changing global conditions will make water resources management and provision of services increasingly complex – more than ever before in human history. These changing conditions will be precipitated by issues like population (number and structure), urbanization, … Read More

May 28, 2017 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1996) defines food security as a condition “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their … Read More

May 5, 2017 During 23–24 February 2017, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences organized a workshop, The Human Right to Water: An Interdisciplinary Focus and Contributions on the Central Role of Public Policies in Water and Sanitation Management, in Vatican City. … Read More

Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada | April 29, 2017 In spite of the widespread belief, India is not facing a water crisis because of actual physical scarcity of this resource. It is facing a serious water crisis because of … Read More

April 1, 2017 The 3-parameter lognormal distribution is a general skew distribution in which the logarithm of any linear function of a given variable is normally distributed. The distribution is applied to the frequency analysis of floods, annual flows, and … Read More

July 27, 2016 The past decades have seen planning and implementation of built infrastructure in all over the developed and developing world growing in large scales. This has been influenced by economic and population growths, urbanization and industrialization, which in … Read More

June 10. 2016 Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were once considered as altruistic groups which aim was to impartially influence public policy with no vested interests. Nevertheless, this perception has changed. They are increasingly perceived as groups that prioritize their own ideologies … Read More

June 1, 2016 This paper seeks to contribute to the current debate about public versus private management of urban water supply services. The main purpose of urban water supply is to ensure the provision of a sufficient quantity of good … Read More

As populations have grown, human needs have increased and expectations have changed, the natural environment that supports growth has deteriorated, and the challenges faced by governments and societies have become more complex. In a race to promote the economic growth … Read More