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Dipak Gyawali, Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
National Water Policies= Rain in Colorado Desert / Trans-Himalaya
Why?Too much ‘Eagle Eye’ Science
Too little‘Toad’s Eye’ Science
Both are necessary but neither alone is sufficient:
ES lacks roots while TS lacks perspective
Social Response to Groundwater Overdraft Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
StateHierarchism
Mass (Voter/Consumer)Fatalism
MarketIndividualism
ActivistEgalitarianism
From: EU-INCO water research from FP4 to FP6 (1994-2006) – a critical review. Luxembourg, (by D. Gyawali, J.A. Allan et al.) http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/water-initiative,2006
Bureaucratic Hierarchism
Control - too many people is the problem: Solution is to manage it through rules and regulation.
DepletionAbundance
Scarcity
Market Individualism
Egalitarianism of Social Movements/Greens
Free innovation is the solution to scarcity brought about by too much control and scare mongering.
Profligacy is the problem: solution is to rein in our greed.
Water Stress and Insecurity
Adapted from Rayner and Malone (1998) and Gyawali (2003)
Neruvian
Regano-ThatcheriteGandhian
Plural Definition (and thus sciences) of what the Water Problem is
Answer is: “Many 10% Solutions”!!
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