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Colin's STRAIGHTtalk on Why we need Environmental Flows

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Colin's STRAIGHTtalk: Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation

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Colin's STRAIGHTtalk on Water Storage : An Answer to Climate Change

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Colin's STRAIGHT talk on six critical solutions to water scarcity and food insecurity.

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Colins STRAIGHTtalk on Are farmers stuck in an unsustainable model?

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Colin's STRAIGHTtalk on Water and Climate Change: Adaptation, Mitigation or Both?

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Colin's STRAIGHTtalk on why we need to overhaul water governance

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Colin Chartres joined IWMI as its new Director General in October 2007. Dr Chartres has 30 years experience in driving research and policy reform in Australia and overseas, across the area of natural resources management, with a focus on water and soils. He holds a PhD in Pedology from the University of Reading, U.K. and a BSc. (Hons) degree in Geography from the University of Bristol. U.K. Colin has Australian and British citizenship and speaks French and Spanish. Colin has spent a considerable part of his career working on international development issues with organizations such as CSIRO and the Australian Geological Survey Organization. He was a Chief Scientist of the Bureau of Rural Sciences and a Past Chair of the Global Research Alliance Water Action Council as well as of Australias National Radio-active Waste Repository Advisory Committee. Prior to joining IWMI he was Chief Science Advisor to Australias National Water Commission. Colin has also worked as Chief of Division of Geo-hazards, Land and Water Resources at the Australian Geological Survey organization, leading research and providing advice to the government on earthquake risks and groundwater resources. He has also been Director of a major groundwater-irrigation feasibility study in the San Luis Province of Argentina. Colin contributed to and supervised projects for the National Land and Water Resources Audit in Australia and was a member of the Steering Committee of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. Colin has published over 120 papers, book chapters and reports on soil, water and agricultural management issues. He believes that most of todays water issues cannot be solved without a truly integrated triple bottom line approach, involving environmental, social and economic inputs.

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International Water Management Institute Colombo, Sri Lanka; Director General.
National Water Commission
CSIRO Land and Water
Bureau of Rural Sciences, Department of Agriculture
Fisheries and Forestry, Australia.
Australian Geological Survey Organisation,
CSIRO, Division of Soils, Canberra.
University of New South Wales, Sydney. Lecturer in Pedology.
Booker Agriculture International Ltd., London.

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