Is inter-linking of rivers the way to solve India's water woes?: A Policy round table

The T N Khoshoo Memorial Award is given each year to an academician or a practitioner whose work has had an impact in the fields of environment, conservation, or development. The award for 2016 was conferred on Mr. K.J. Joy, co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM) and Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, in recognition of his activist and research work, spanning 30 years, in the development sector.

The TN Khoshoo Award function included a policy round-table on “Is inter-linking of rivers the way to solve India's water woes?”. The discussion was moderated by Dr Sharachchandra Lele, Senior Fellow at ATREE, and the panelists included Prof. Lyla Mehta, Noragric; Mr Brij Gopal, Centre for Inland Waters in South Asia; Himanshu Kulkarni, ACWADAM, and Mr K J Joy.