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@MISC{Briscoe_journalof,
author = {John Briscoe},
title = {Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Once upon a time the United States was the undisputed leader of the world. In that era the US was also the undisputed leader in the practice of water resources development and management, and the education of water professionals and future leaders from around the world. This editorial argues that that time has passed, and that now is the time for a major re-think if the United States is to regain the role as a world leader of both water resource practice and graduate education. By way of preface, over the past forty years I have engaged with water management in the developing world from many perspectives – successively in the Ministry of Water in my home country of South Africa; as a graduate student working on India and Pakistan in the Harvard Water Program; as an epidemiologist at the Cholera Research Laboratory in Bangladesh; as an engineer in the Ministry of Water in newly-independent Mozambique; working on Africa and the Philippines as a professor of water resources at the University of North Carolina and for the last twenty years in Asia, Latin America and Africa in a variety of operational and policy positions in the World Bank. Of particular relevance for this editorial are my two final World Bank assignments – for three years as the World Bank’s Senior Water Advisor in New Delhi, and for three years as the World Bank’s Country Director for Brazil. Now I am a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, charged with developing a university-wide new “Harvard Water Initiative”.
Keyphrases
water resource planning united state undisputed leader world bank graduate education last twenty year major re-think newly-independent mozambique new delhi water resource university-wide new harvard water initiative faculty member water professional particular relevance north carolina cholera research laboratory future leader policy position final world bank assignment world leader water resource development world bank country director developing world south africa latin america harvard water program graduate student water management many perspective senior water advisor applied science home country past forty year water resource practice
