India dismantled the planning commission, but we need desperate planning to cope up with water crisis and climate change. Water treatment solution needs significant amount of investment but budgets are tight, which is why, we need planning,” said Jeffrey Sachs, university professor, Columbia University, while speaking at the summit on The Global Water Crisis. David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff professor, University of California, Berkeley, also stressed on global water crisis and said “we need to find urban water solutions that are decentralized from bureaucracy”. Both Sedlak and Sachs also exhorted the global leaders to take decisive action. We need global climate action that’s decisive and not just rhetorical,” Sachs added.

Source: Mint December 03, 2016 12:10 UTC