Charting a New Course A Strategy for Sustainable Management of India's Water Resources in the 21st Century G N Kathpalia and Rakesh Kapoor was published
by Alternative Futures of which Aditi Kapoor one of the founder Trustees.

The debate in India on water resources is unfortunately characterised by extreme positions taken by the so-called 'pro-environment' groups and NGOs on the one hand and the 'pro-development' engineers, contractors and government officials on the other. This publication goes beyond these extreme positions and puts forward a strategy for integrated water resources management (IWRM) with suggestions for the key organisational and managerial changes required at the macro and micro levels in order to implement the IWRM approach. The booklet intends to generate debate and discussion among policy makers, engineers, administrators, NGOs and communities involved in the management of water resources, and ultimately to help us move towards consensus on this vital issue. It will also prove useful to the state governments and water resource managers to formulate operational Action Plans and sustainable systems of management of water resources in the 21st century. G. N. Kathpalia is Chairman of Alternative Futures. A civil engineer from Roorkee with five decades of experience in water resources management, he has worked in both state and central governments and international development agencies. The major focus of his work in recent years has been on participatory policies and planning for water resources management. Rakesh Kapoor is Director/Managing Trustee of Alternative Futures. He has worked on environment and development issues and on the creation of alternative futures through social, policy and technological innovations. He is also Consulting Editor of Futures: journal of policy, planning and futures studies (published by Elsevier, Oxford).

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A presentation of the strategy for managing water sustainably in the 21st century based on this booklet will be made at the India International Centre, Conf. room number 1, on Monday, May 15, from 6.30 to 8 p.m.