Monthly Archives: December 2009
Climate Change: The Tragedy of the Himalayas
It's a population that is stressed for water, even if the ice doesn't disappear. According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), most of...
Telegraph.co.uk: Al Gore shows us the way to make green from...
In a presentation to the UN last month, Dr Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute, said that within the next...
Dawn.com: Heading for hunger
Chronic food shortages, spawning social unrest, will plague the entire region by 2050 at the very latest, according to a recently released report issued...
Bangkokpost.com: Six agencies sued over cadmium pollution
Cadmium contamination was detected in early 2004 by foreign scientists from the International Water Management Institute, which found that several hundred villagers in the...
Follow IWMI’s Tweets from the COP15 Summit
15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) - Copenhagen, Denmark IWMI is Twittering from COP15. View photos and follow the latest tweets from...
Scidev.net: Invest in water for farming, or the world will go...
A few years ago, my organisation, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that many countries are facing severe water scarcity, either because insufficient...
Mckinsey.com: Charting Our Water Future
When I chaired the Second World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, I set out a simple mission: to make water everyone's...
Adaptationlearning.net: Don’t ignore agriculture in climate talks, experts warn
Signatories include Colin Chartres, director-general of the International Water Management Institute; William Dar, director-general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics;...
Lloyds.com: Worldwide water crisis: time is running out
Yet around one third of the population already lives in areas where water is physically or economically scarce due to insufficient investment in the...
Theecologist.co.uk: Coca-Cola just part of India’s water ‘free-for-all’
According to Dr David Molden from International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka (IWMI) many thousands of villages that are unable to get water...