Asit Biswas

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Asit K. Biswas (* 1939 in Baleswar , Orissa state ) is an Indian- born Canadian hydrologist and advisor to governments and the United Nations .

Life

Asit Biswas was born in the east of the subcontinent as the son of the doctor Anil Biswas and his wife Asha. He studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur and then worked as an engineer in Liverpool . He graduated from Loughborough University with a second degree and became a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 1967 he came to Canada and became a visiting professor at Queen's University . In 1974 he worked for 15 months in Nairobi at UNEP . From 1981 to 1997 he conducted research at Oxford University and then founded the Third World Center for Water Management in Mexico City . He is a longtime visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Biswas rejects the thesis of water scarcity. Rather, countermeasures must be taken through water management to reduce waste and by increasing the prices for drinking water.

Biswas is privately interested in painting. He is married to the Mexican scientist Cecilia Tortajada and has a grown daughter.

In 1984 he received an honorary doctorate from Lund University and in 2006 the Stockholm Water Prize . He was awarded additional honorary doctorates by the University of Strathclyde (2007), the Helsinki University of Technology (2008), the IIT Kharagpur and the IIT Bhubaneswar .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message about the award of the Stockholm Water Prize 2006 ( memento from February 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Biswas, Asit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biswas, Asit K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-Canadian hydrologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Baleswar , Orissa State