Career Profile OF Dr. COSTANTINO FAILLACE
| Dr. Costantino Faillace,
the first of nine children, was born very poor in
a small village in South Italy. He began his
career as a ground water expert or Hydrogeologist
with the Italian Government working for 6 years
in Somalia, later he joined the United Nations
Development Program,Department of Technical
Cooperation for Development and worked as Senior
Hydrogeologist and subsequently as Project
Manager on water resources projects in Uganda,
Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Liberia. |
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Until the age of 70, he worked
as a Consulting Hydrogeologist in many developing
countries like Somalia ( another 5 years ), Kenya, South
Korea, Nepal, India. for several international
organizations, especially U.N agencies like the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),
the United Nations Operation Project Service (OPS), the
Food Agriculture Organization (FAO). He worked also for
the World Bank, the German Agency for Technical
Co-operation (GTZ) and other international organizations.
Altogether he spent 18 years in Africa, nine years in
Central and South America and about five years in the Far
East. Dr. Faillace has written in English, Spanish and
Italian about 80 technical reports and monographs on
groundwater exploration, evaluation and use. After his
retirement, he has lectured, as invited professor, in the
University of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna, Berlin,
Mogadishu. He has attended numerous national and
international congresses and symposiums, where he
presented scientific papers on the various aspects of
groundwater exploration, development and management,
especially for arid, semi-arid and tropical countries. He
is a strong believer that simple, appropriate technology
can help to solve many problems afflicting most of the
developing countries. For work assignments, conferences
and other reasons, he visited more than 80 countries. Dr.
Faillace is a member of several international
associations dealing with surface and groundwater
aspects. Dr. Faillace and his wife Katharina, a Yoga
teacher, are deeply interested in Indian Culture and
Philosophy, and they often attend Yoga courses. Since
1989 they are involved in philantrophic activities in
India to help tribal people (the Adivasi) of Pune and
Thana Districts by drilling boreholes for small remote
villages. Their "crusade" is aiming at
improving the people's health by providing safe water;
about two hundred water scarcity villages have been
helped in the past ten years. Dr. Faillace devotes all
his earning as International Consulting Hydrogeologist to
the Adivasi village water program. "Tino" (as
he is affectionately called by the villagers, social
workers and government officers) is now a familiar name
in many villages ("bastis" and
"padas") of various counties (
"talukas") of Pune and Thana Districts in the
Maharashtra state of India.
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