Earlier this spring, Harvard University’s South Asia Institute hosted its annual symposium, a two-day program focused on South Asia Regionalism: Shared Challenges and the Way Forward. I was privileged to lead the the Urban Water Challenges panel and workshop held during the symposium with Peter Rogers, Afreen Siddiqi, Farhana Sultana and Jim Wescoat. Some major […]
Water Diplomacy for South Asia: Conceptualization of Ecological Water Engineering
This post is a follow up to The Case for Water Diplomacy for South Asia (Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin). The initial post describes the unique hydrology and water security challenges for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin shared by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal. The problem of water security in South Asia is rooted more in spatial and temporal […]