Managing Water as a Human Right: Challenges and Opportunities
Published on by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG in Academic
Lecture by Prof Asit Biswas focuses on the following issues:
- To what extent the UNGA resolution has accelerated clean water provisioning when at least 3.5 billion people lack access to it?
- How may this resolution advance water management practices and processes and help handle some of the major challenges the world is facing at present to implement the concept that water is a human right?
- The lecture will also discuss the efforts of Pope Francis to further the implementation of this notion through an interfaith dialogue in the Vatican, 23-24 February 2017, which the author helped to organise, including the potential impacts of the latest Vatican declaration.
Prof Asit K Biswas is one of the world’s leading authorities on water and environment. Co-founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
He was formerly a Professor in UK, Canada and Sweden. He was member of the World Commission on Water and a founder of the International Water Resources Association and World Water Council.
The event is organised by the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Source website: http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg
Attached link
http://www.youtube.com/embed/WNfJNYOw5ZsMedia
Taxonomy
- Water
- Policy
- Water Access
- Human Rights
- Empowerment & Right To Water
- Water Management
- Human Resources