Environment Support Group

UN ‘Water for Life’ Best Practices Award, 2012

Environment Support Group was awarded UN Water’s ‘best practices’ award in 2012 for its efforts in “Protection of Bangalore Lakes for Posterity – Setting a Legal Precedent for Conservation of Lakes as Commons, India”.  Leo F. Saldanha, Coordinator of ESG presented the organisations initiatives to protect and conserve lake networks to an audience that included:

  • Secretary, Water Resources, Brazilian Government *
  • Ms. Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros. Vice-Chair UN-Water, Director Division of Water Sciences UNESCO
  • Mr. Jorge Miguel Samek. Brazilian General Director of Itaipu Binacional.
  • Mr. James Spalding. Paraguayan General Director of Itaipu Binacional.
  • Mr. Vicente Andreu Guillo. President Director of the Brazilian National Water Agency – ANA.
  • Mr. Nelton Friedrich. Director of Coordination of Itaipu Binacional
  • Mr. Idibek Kalandarov. Head of the International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan
  • Mr. Lupercio Ziroldo Antonio. President of the Brazilian network of hydrographic basins. REBOB.
  • Ms. Josefina Maestu. Director, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC), Coordinator, United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015
  • Ms. Alice Bouman-Dentener. Honorary Founding President of Women for Water Partnership (WFWP) 

A Report entitled, ‘Five years of UN-Water “Water for Life” Awards 2011-2015‘ can be read here.

Ceremony 2012 edition | ‘Water for Life’ UN-Water Best Practices Award

The Award was presented to the winners by Mr. Jerónimo Blasco Jáuregui, Councilor of Culture, Education, Environment and Civil participation of the Municipality of Zaragoza, Spain. Category 1 Award in its edition 2012 was awarded to the project ‘Protection of Bangalore Lakes for Posterity – Setting a Legal Precedent for Conservation of Lakes as Commons’, for its outstanding contribution towards the conservation of waterbodys in Bangalore, India, and its demonstrable and tangible impact on the food security of peri-urban and rural communities in the region.

Environment Support Group Gets United Nations “WATER FOR LIFE” 2012 Best Practices Award – Environment Support Group

Comprehensive efforts to conserve Bangalore Lakes that bring together Judiciary, Government and wide public considered strategic to building ecological, water and economic security 23 March 2012Downloads: Pictorial Brochure on ESG’s Lakes effort Release on ESG winning the UN ‘Water for Life’ Award 2…
NDTV feature on ESG’s lakes conservation initiative