Stockholm International Water Institute » Tony Allan http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:35:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 “Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to Our Planet’s Most Precious Resource” by Tony Allan http://www.siwi.org/publication/virtual-water-tackling-the-threat-to-our-planet%c2%92s-most-precious-resource-by-tony-allan/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/virtual-water-tackling-the-threat-to-our-planet%c2%92s-most-precious-resource-by-tony-allan/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:53 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/publication/virtual-water-tackling-the-threat-to-our-planet%c2%92s-most-precious-resource-by-tony-allan/ This is a small book with a huge story. It is a book of a simple language in which complex and important thoughts are made clear. It is a very serious book which uses both wit and humour throughout. It is above all a book drawn from research and scientific discovery – and yet the insights are always accessible, intelligible and except for the lively annexes, largely devoid of graphs and formulas. Tony Allan makes water issues understandable: “Think of one cubic metre of water as three bathtubs.

Article from the Stockholm Water Front, issue no 4, 2011.

 

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/virtual-water-tackling-the-threat-to-our-planet%c2%92s-most-precious-resource-by-tony-allan/feed/ 0 Water Security: Opportunity for Development and Co-operation in the Aral Sea Area http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:43 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-security-opportunity-for-development-and-co-operation-in-the-aral-sea-area/ Co-convened by the Swedish section of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm International Water Institute, this seminar held in August 2000 presented ongoing framework programs, research work and future-looking methodologies to reach water security in the Aral Sea region.

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