Join us for the next webinar in The Last Drop Water Researchers Speaker Series. Dr. Mihir Shah, Distinguished Professor at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, will speak to “Water Challenges in the Anthropocene: Lessons from India.”
The Anthropocene makes the need for a paradigm shift in water management and governance more urgent than ever before. Large swathes of humanity still remain stuck in the mid-20th century paradigm of command-and-control over river systems and endless extraction and exploitation of groundwater. Dominated by the disciplines of engineering and hydrogeology, such a perspective persistently ignores the need for a trans-disciplinary and holistic approach to a common pool resource like water, acutely aware of the interconnectedness across different elements of the water cycle.
India’s experience of water policy can be deeply instructive for us to draw the most pertinent lessons from both its mistakes, and from the multiple innovations that have been proposed in recent decades. This talk will be an attempt to share some important learnings that emerge from this experience, based on first-hand attempts at shaping this policy both at the grass-roots, as well as at the highest echelons of government.

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