This IIT, Kharagpur alumnus 2006 Stockholm World Water Prize laureate and now founder-president of Third World Centre of Water Management, Mexico City, fostered a critical rethink among UN agencies and governments over water resources management and changed the way the world thought about water.
You have "challenged the status quo" on water? How would you explain that?
What is the Biswas-Hansen formula?
What was the contribution of the UN International Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IWSSD)?
Why and how should developing countries look at water management differently from developed countries?
What does India's water future look like? Are we heading for war and severe scarcity?
How does subsidisation, prevalent in many developing countries, affect water resources?
Is privatisation the solution for solving the distribution problems in developing countries?
Privatisation usually leads to rise in/imposition of water charges and are opposed by poor country citizens. How to avoid that?
What do you think of India’s sporadic privatisation efforts?
What is the worst crisis area in India--groundwater, urban water supply or irrigation?
A shorter version of the interview appears in the magazine.
