Mindless toilets
Stockholm Water Week Prize Winner Ms. Sunita Narain gives her view on conventional toilets
17.08.2005 |Margriet Samwel
The FINAL PROGRAMME for the 2005 World Water Week in Stockholm, August 21-27, is now available at the World Water Week homepage.
The World Water Week includes the Stockholm Water Symposium and a wide variety of plenary sessions, panel debates, scientific workshops, independently organised seminars and side events, exhibitions and festive prize ceremonies.
Participants in Stockholm will come from more than 100 countries and will represent the business, civil society, governmental, inter-governmental, science and water management sectors. More than 60 organisations and programmes are participating. Many water and related issues will be discussed during the week, among them climate variability, corruption, financing, gender equity, large-scale infrastructure, sanitation, water pollution abatement and more.
It is still possible to register and attend. Visit www.worldwaterweek.org for more information about single day, full week or student registration.
WECF congratulates CSE and her director Ms. Sunita Narain with the Nomination of the 2005 Stockholm Water Prize
The Nomination Committee for Stockholm Water Prize, in its motivation, cited the Centre for Science and Environment, CSE, "for a successful recovery of old and generation of new knowledge on water management, a community-based sustainable integrated resource management under gender equity, a courageous stand against undemocratic, top-down bureaucratic resource control, an efficient use of free press, and an independent judiciary to meet these goals.
The annual prize instituted by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), is awarded to individuals and institutions for making a substantial contribution to the preservation, enhancement or availability of the world's water resources. It includes a US$ 150,000 cash award, which will be presented to CSE in Sweden by King Carl XVI Gustaf in August.
The SCE is the first organization established in and operating from a developing country which receives the Prize
Sunita Narain describes in an interview the CSE as an institution which is very much part of the India´s democracy; "It is an institution which works well in the very rich democracy tradition of our country, a tradition which makes us the institution we are. We are a knowledge-based advocacy organisation, which really means we use information - as communicators, researchers and writers - but we do our writing with the purpose to bring change. We are a strange combination of actors like Greenpeace mixed up with policy research institutions. This strange mixture is unique because it is journalistic at one level, but also an institution which uses that journalism very directly and in a very committed way to push for what we believe in it."
In the article "The flush toilet is ecologically mindless" we can learn about the ideology and the excellent journalistic of CSE and Sunita Narain. Please, see pdf
For more information go to the homepage of CSE.
Download the article on flush toilets by SUNITA NARAIN (1,1 MB, pdf).
