SaciWATERs, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, was formed as a project on the theme "water for food and rural development" after the 2000 World Water Forum at Hague, was established with the aim of bringing a paradigm perspective. Based in Hyderabad, India, the consortium comprises accomplished scholars acd activists from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SaciWATERs produces new knowledge to address the pressing problems in the water sector in south Asia through education, research and advocacy. It has created a new group of professionals and experts through its Crossing Boundaries Project which aims to contribute to the paradigm shift in water resources management in South Asia by means of various partnership-based programmes for capacity building of water professionals through higher education, innovative and social learning focused research ("research with an impact"), knowledge based development and networking.

Our Mission

SaciWATERs is committed to bring structural change in the dominant water resources management paradigm in South Asia. Within that, we focus on transforming water resources knowledge systems. Key ideas are an interdisciplinary approach to understanding water resources issues from a pro-poor human development perspective with an emphasis on exchange, interaction and collaboration at South Asia level. The longer term aim is to establish a South Asian "virtual water university".