Farewell to general solutions

InWEnt programme for the water sector in the Middle East and North Africa is unique: it focuses on countries with similar social, economic, legal and cultural conditions and brings together stakeholders from government, academia, private sector and NGOs, and will constitute a mutual learning effort for all concerned.

There is no single solution which is equally applicable to an economic giant like the United States, technological powerhouses like Germany and Japan, emerging economic powers like China and India, and countries as diverse as Brazil, Bahrain, Bhutan and Burkina Faso. No single water management approach is equally valid for Asian values, African traditions, Islamic customs, Japanese culture and Western civilisation. InWEnt’s programme breaks a single approach by taking a region-specific one considering diversity of conditions and plurality of solutions, in an objective, impartial and undogmatic manner.

Read more in an article by Prof. Dr. Asit K. Biswas and Dr. Cecilia Tortajada (President and Vicepresident of the Third World Centre for Water Management) from D+C magazine for Development and Cooperation ›››