Stockholm International Water Institute » India http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Taking from the Top: Looking Upstream in India http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:48 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/ River basin closure has developed into a sizeable challenge of extreme importance. Over the past 50 years, many of the river basins that support the world’s breadbaskets have already or will soon become closed basins. Like the basins themselves, the world’s eye on this critical issue seems to be closing at a time when it can least afford to look away. Applying the findings of a groundwater use case from India, this article sheds some light on this blind spot in water resource management to see what is going on downstream in the great sub-continent.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 4 2007.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/taking-from-the-top-looking-upstream-in-india/feed/ 0 Sanitation Innovator and Social Reformer Awarded 2009 Stockholm Water Prize http://www.siwi.org/publication/sanitation-innovator-and-social-reformer-awarded-2009-stockholm-water-prize/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/sanitation-innovator-and-social-reformer-awarded-2009-stockholm-water-prize/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:42:33 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/sanitation-innovator-and-social-reformer-awarded-2009-stockholm-water-prize/ Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India, has been named the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. As the founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Dr. Pathak is known around the world for his wide ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in India and other countries.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2009.

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