Feeding the world is easy. The panic about the ability of the world to deliver enough food for seven, eight, nine or even ten billion people is absurd. Worse, it is driving the agenda of aggressive land-grabbers and agribusinesses — pushing farmi…
A world in need of potty training. It’s shit economics. And pretty lousy ecology, too. Our misuse of human excrement must count as one of the modern world’s worst, but least discussed, resource failures. It is turning rivers into cesspools, d…
Water, the primary resource for irrigated agriculture, is demanded by domestic, industrial, environmental and agricultural sectors within a catchment. In other words, water of varying quality is demanded by multiple sectors and in varying quantities …
The IWMI-Tata Policy Research Program Annual Partners’ Meeting (ITP-APM 2012) got down to business last week in Anand, Gujarat. Researchers and partners discussed some of India’s most pressing water management problems.
