Water Champion Chandrashekar Hariharan: Creating a Lifestyle Built on Integrated Water Management Practices
People's commitment is a big concern in providing safe and accessible water supply and sanitation (WSS) in India. For Biodiversity Conservation (India) Limited (BCIL) Alternate Technology Foundation Head Chandrashekar Harihara, people need to understand the value of water, importance of hygiene, steps for installing simple water treatment systems that they can maintain, and the strength of a community. Can his message of localized or federalized solutions help save the drawing of freshwater?
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Water Champion Antonio de Vera: Building Viable Water Utilities for the Country
For a regulator to do his job well, Subic Bay Water Regulatory Board (SBWRB) Chair Antonio de Vera advises regulators to do what they think is right. Balancing conflicting interests within a political climate is not easy but must be made. It is also important to keep abreast of new developments in the sector since it is hard to regulate someone who is more knowledgeable than the regulator.
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Water Champion Ramaswamy R. Iyer: Caution and Care in Building Dams
For Dams expert Ramaswamy Iyer, big dams are major interventions in nature and should therefore be projects of the last resort. Proper caution and care should be applied in building dams. The approach is to apply the criteria of `least environmental impact' and `minimum displacement,’ inform and involve the people likely to be affected, and put the project through the most stringent scrutiny.
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Water Champion Water Champion Hamidur Khan : Coping with the Worst of Floods
Flooding in Bangladesh is the result of a complex series of factors—from huge inflow of water from upstream catchment areas coinciding with heavy monsoon rainfall to congested drainage channels, or from major rivers converging inside Bangladesh to tides and storm surges in coastal areas.