Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture 2015

The Water Institute is pleased to host Dr. Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment, India, as the RBC 2015 Distinguished Lecturer.
Dr. Narain’s lecture is titled Challenges for Water Security in the Poor’s World: The agenda for research and policy to manage water scarcity, plenty, pollution and waste in an age of climate risk.
Abstract
Dr. Narain’s lecture, the “Challenges for Water Security in the Poor’s World”, will address the fact that large parts of the developing world are faced with huge and mounting water challenges. On the one hand, there is scarcity and competition for the resource between current agricultural users and new users in industry and urban areas. On the other hand, there is increasingly variability in rainfall, leading to floods and droughts because of now more visible climatic changes. Current technologies for water and waste management are unaffordable and therefore, unsustainable. What is the way ahead? What should research be advising policy and practice to build a new water future? This is a free public lecture. It will also be available via Livestream.

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