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Mike Muller

Mike Muller, a civil engineer by training, was director-general of water affairs and forestry (1997-2005). He is now a visiting research fellow at the graduate school of public and development management at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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The world’s water future

The problems of water management are at the heart of an integrated crisis of global development that includes climate change and food insecurity, says Mike Muller.

A global thirst: water, power and the poor

The United Nations Human Development Report is a vital resource. But the currently fashionable language of human rights and decentralisation can be an obstacle to development, says Mike Muller.