Pani Satsang

Pani Satsang is a forum which brings professionals, policy makers and experts of various field to discuss contemporary issues of development, resource management, governance, environment, water sharing, international relations, education, innovations and so on. Eminent scholars, practitioners, and professionals are invited to the Satsang to give public lectures.

The list of Satsang held to date.

No.	Speaker(s)	Date	Subject
6th	Rajinder Singh and D. K. Mishra	February 27, 2001	Floods and Droughts: Reconciling Dilemmas in South Asian Water Management
7th	Professor Ramaswamy Iyer, Dr. Peter Gleick and Dr. Anne Powell	March 1, 2001	Water Management, Governance and Changing Paradigms
8th	Dr. Peter Mollinga	April 20, 2002	Irrigation Management in South India: Emerging Challenges
9th	Professor Kirk Smith	May 14, 2002	Local and Global Implications of the Household Stoves
10th	Ronald Hoffer	June 19, 2002	Water for Sustainable Development
11th			Russian centre one
12th	Dr. Hari Man Shrestha	Nov. 24, 2002	Nepal's Hydropower expert emeritus was publicly felicitated for his lifetime contribution to improve the scientific and public policy knowledge base about water in Nepal. He also delivered a key note speech.
13th	Huta Ram Baidhya, Madan Mani Dixit, Bhairab Rishal and Bhagban Das Manandhar	February 24, 2003	His book Bagmati Savyata Sanrachyan was released.
14th	Krishna Bahadur Gurung	June 1 2003	Flood preparedness
15th	Mr. Liam Salter	July 25, 2003	Issues and Approaches on Adaptation to Climate Change and its Mitigation
16th	Prof. Anna Vari	February, 2004	Social and Economic aspects of floods and droughts: Cases of the Tisza River and Lake Balaton in Hungary
17th	Book release by Amreeta Regmi and comment by Kapil Shrestha, Bikash Pandey and Din Mani Pokhrel	July 22, 2004	Water Governance, Human Rights, Technology and Democracy
18th	Dipak Gyawali, Ajaya Dixit                 and  Madhukar Upadhya	August 15, 2004	Release of the book "Ropeway in Nepal"
19th	Dr. Robert G. Wirsing and                 Dr. Christopher Jasparro	May 6, 2005	South Asian Water Diplomacy
20th	Jeff Apigian	May 3, 2005	Newah's Fog Water Collecting Experience
21th	Dr. Warren Gold	November 30, 2005	Ecological Restoration in Highlands: Reflecting on Experiences in the Cascades, the Alps and the Himalaya
22nd	Michael Thompson	March 23, 2007	Technology and Democracy, What's the connection and what can we do about it?