Browsing by Author "Biswas, Asit"

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The Water Challenges of Megacities
(2004) Biswas, Asit; Tortajada, Cecilia; Lundqvist, Jan; Varis, Olli
"From the dawn of history, as the human population has continuously increased, so have the water and wastewater disposal requirements. Water management was not a serious problem as long as the population numbers were low and concentrations of the people were not high. As the population started to increase dramatically during the post-1950 period, and the rate of urbanisation began to accelerate, provision of clean water and safe disposal of wastewater and stormwater for the megacities of developing countries became increasingly more complex and serious."
Water for the Next 30 Years: Averting the Looming Water Crisis
(1997) Biswas, Asit; Björklund, Gunilla; Davis, Denis A.; Falkenmark, Malin; Kadi, Mohamed Ait; Kelman, Jerson; Klohn, Wulf; Kuylenstierna, Johan L.; Lindh, Anna; Mendiluce, Martin J. M.; Naljis, Pierre; Pérez del Rio, Julio P.; Rogers, Peter
"The Mar del Plata Anniversary Seminar used the occasion that twenty years have now past since the 1977 UN Water Conference. The aim was to analyze the impact that the Mar del Plata Conference has had on improving water management, and in what way ensuing thinking has continued to change our water perception, and to address the main issues of the next 30 years. The Seminar was to build a bridge between on the one hand successes and failures of past decades, and on the other the conceptual development, efforts and strategies needed for the next thirty years, and policy options available to avert the looming water crisis. This introductory article gives an overview over the contributions to the Seminar and an analysis of the results."