By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra Can states shore up river catchments to improve the water our cities get? They call it DEWS. It is something that politicians and senior bureaucrats at the helm of government and meteorologists look at, with some anxiety, every so often. The...
By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra Is the UK Water Utilities model a pipedream that India can never hope to aspire for? Or can administrators begin to think ‘demand-side’? “Those at the vantage of both apex water supply companies find this difficult to accept. Why can’t a...
By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra Have you wondered how other countries supply water, and what measures they take to govern water use? Here is an amazing case study of the UK’s water utilities. It was on a volunteering stint at a forest range that he realized what it meant to...
By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra MAKING AN INVENTORY OF LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT… “If it is not affecting the neighbor, I have little to worry about for now.” Beating this behavior barrier is a greater challenge than innovation. “Any breakthrough innovation takes at...
By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra But the good news is about 50 years from now if we know how to muddle our way through till then…!!! It would surprise many non-experts to know that India’s population is set to decline to about a billion people by 2100 after it...
By Dr. Hari Haran Chandra Chennai-based Rathindra Roy reflects on what we can likely do about climate change. What do you do when you have spent several decades successfully facilitating and steering many organizations in the development sector worldwide and realize...