Because people in the countryside are generally poor, it is usually assumed that rural water supplies must be financed by government agencies. It is now widely recognized, however, that many of these people can and will pay for improved water supplies, and that sustaining and extending services...

With an average rainfall of under 240 milli-meters a year, Pakistan is one of the world's most arid countries. The population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx of water into the Indus river system that emanates from the neighboring countries and is mostly derived from...

India faces a turbulent water future and the current water development and management system is not sustainable.Unless dramatic changes are made and made soon in the way in which government manages water, India will have neither the cash to maintain and build new infrastructure, nor the water...