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This is cross posted from my blog (link). I wanted to introduce the idea of common pool resources, on which there is a whole new body of work coming up lately. This had won Elinor Ostrom the 2009 Nobel Prize. For water sector, I believe this theory can definitely yield some new insights. And it all starts with a question "Who owns the water?'Read More

Photo from International Rivers 

Nature Conservancy a decade ago estimated the value of earth’s ecosystem services to be at least $33trillion a year. At the time of estimation it was close to gross world product. Something about that figure wasn’t quite clear and I always wondered how they managed to come up with the number.Read More

Ever since the tide of COP 15 related news swelled across the media and press releases in various parts of the world, I have been wondering if climate  issues are Read More

The special track on Sanitation today was the best part of the whole series of sessions. Insightful and sometimes funny, like this one.Read More

Ashok Jaitly, Water Resources Department, TERI
Policy issues in water conservation

Habil Attarwala, Furaat Earth Ltd., GujaratRead More

Attending today's technology sessions, I couldn't help thinking about what Carl Sagan once remarked about scienceRead More

Observing water harvesting from many different geographies, demographies and cultural setups, we have different approaches emerging to address the situation!Read More

One of the most grippping and intensly scientific presentation at WHSC has been this one, by Prof. P.S. Datta of the Nuclear Research Laboratory, IARI.Read More

On technology and policy, on what works and what doesn't, on what should work and what can be scaled up... there have been numerous approaches and methodologies presented here at WHSC.Read More

How is it possible to discuss water harvesting and conservation and not talk about the traditional water management systems that have existed over centuries, in India.Read More