As each South Asian country struggles with a fresh water crisis, Bilal Ahmad Pandow (South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists) argues why a new water data sharing platform created by the United Nations, Google, and the European Commission could help countries around the region provide fresh, clean water to their citizens while helping the region to avoid […]
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UN Environment, Google, EC partnership effective to depoliticize water crisis in South Asia
Bilal Ahmad Pandow This year the theme for World Water Day 2019 is ‘Leaving no one behind’ and goes hand in hand with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-six which is ‘water for all by 2030’. However, the ground reality in South Asia appears gloomy and too far to achieve the SDG-6 as the countries are […]
We need more than donations to achieve equality for women in South Asia
As the whole world celebrates the International Women’s Day, South Asian countries are still marred with gender inequalities. The region is still engaged in child marriages with one in two girls married before 18 years of age according to UNICEF, and according to the World global gender gap index, South Asia is the second-lowest scoring […]
Living Lakes Conference
SAVAE participated in 14th International Living Lakes Conference in Nanchang, China
World Water Day celebrated
Make Safe-drinking Water Accessible to People: SAVAE The government of Jammu and Kashmir needs to formulate a firm policy to ensure water-sustainability and cleanliness of water bodies in future in the state, urged by various speakers during a seminar organized by South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists [SAVAE], a developmental organization on the occasion of […]
‘Save lives, property from unfolding disaster’
With heavy rainfall bringing back floods to the valley within seven months, Environment Watchdog, South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists [SAVAE] has said that nothing could move the government of Jammu and Kashmir over the past many months regarding disaster prevention. The organization has appealed the new government to take things serious and help people […]
‘Make protection of wetlands top priority’
A Kashmir based developmental organization, South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists (SAVAE), has urged the government and the people of the state to protection of wetlands and environment one of the top priorities of governance. In a statement issued on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, SAVAE has said that the environment and ecology […]