Kapuscinski Development Lectures - Life without water: what happens when the glass is empty?

I would like to recommend the Kapuscinski Development Lecture - Life without water: What Happens when the glass is empty? which took place on 3 February 2016.

Water is critical to nearly all of the Sustainable Development Goals, yet research suggests that we have already surpassed our limit for freshwater consumption. What’s the way forward? 

Watch the trailer: Rajendra Singh at #KAPTalks 3 February 2016

Watch the recording of the event:

Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh, known as the „waterman of India”, is the laureate of 2015 Stockholm Water Prize. Chairman of Tarun Bharat Sangh organisation. Rajendra Singh lives and works in the arid Indian state of Rajasthan, where he for several decades dedicated himself to defeating drought and empowering communities. The results of his tireless work are without equal: in close cooperation with local residents, he and his organization have revived several rivers, brought water, and life, back to a thousand villages and given hope to countless people. Rajendra Singh’s work reveals a true humanitarian and firm believer in empowerment. After studying Ayurvedic medicine and surgery, he went into the countryside in the largely impoverished state of Rajasthan in the mid-1980’s with the aim to set up health clinics. Instead, he was told by villagers that the greatest need was not health care, but water. Rajendra Singh did not insist with the clinics. Instead, and with the help of the villagers, he set out to build johads, or traditional earthen dams. Two decades after Rajendra Singh arrived in Rajasthan, 8,600 johads and other structures to collect water had been built. Water had been brought back to a 1,000 villages across the state. The methods used by Mr Singh are modernisations of traditional Indian ways of collecting and storing rainwater, dating back thousands of years. The methods fell out of use during British colonial rule, but have now brought water back to the driest state in one of the world’s most populous nations, thanks to the “Water man of India” and his colleagues.

For more informaiton please visit the event page on the Kapuscinski website.

Cheers,

I would also encourage you to join the Public Group on Water and Sanitation: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-water_and_sanitation/dashboard