Ecohydrology, a low cost - high technology opportunity for Asian countries

Asian countries have broad extremes of development stages, some are technologically very advanced, on the other extreme are people that are dependent to traditional village practices. Rapid population growth in the past three decades have put great stress to the environment mainly due to a greedy natural resources exploitation. In that period traditional wisdom, knowledge, and taboo are being put behind and got a negative signature especially from the group who claimed themselves as modern people. This paper try to dig into several examples of good traditional practices in Indonesia that has its deep root in a sustainable humanistic environmental management. The 21st century have not only introduce modern mankind practice in the changing face of Asia but have also caused huge environmental degradation along its way of transformation, This paper urge the introduction of ecohydrology principles into Asia countries by bridging a combination approach between traditional knowledge and wisdom that has its deep roots in people daily life with the modern practice learned from modern European experiences.