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symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  a short statement of the issues involved

• FROM MA GANGA TO MAE KHONGKHA AND BACK
  Dipak Gyawali, former Minister of Water Resources of Nepal; currently Pragya (Academician) of the Nepal Academy Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu

• THE GANGA-BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN AND REGIONAL COOPERATION
  Manoj Joshi, journalist and author; Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi

• FISHING IN TROUBLED WATERS AND THE CUSEC-MEGAWATT RIVER
  Sonali Mittra, Junior Fellow, Centre for Resources Management, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi; and Rohan D'Souza, Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• TOWARDS IMPROVED DATA AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE
  Bushra Nishat, Project Manager, Ecosystems for Life: A Bangladesh-India Initiative, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Md. Shamim Shams, Sub-Divisional Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka

• ENGAGING WITH THE GLOBAL
  Shawahiq Siddiqui, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Managing Partner, Indian Environment Law Offices, Delhi

• ACTIVISM AND THE MEDIA
  Jayanta Basu, Environment Correspondent, 'The Telegraph'; Faculty, Department of Environmental Sciences/Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Calcutta University

• REGIONAL COOPERATION ON THE GANGA BASIN: YET A MIRAGE?
  Dwarika N. Dhungel, former Secretary, Water Resources, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu

• WATER EDUCATION AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL
  Imtiaz Ahmed, Professor of International Relations, University of Dhaka

• RETHINKING TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS 
  Gareth Price, Senior Research Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House, London

• BOOKS 
  Reviewed by Suhit K. Sen, Vithal Rajan and Amitabh Mukhopadhyay

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