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Language: English, French, Hindi, Marathi

Payal Sampat - Senior Fellow



Mining, Materials, Groundwater, Linguistic Diversity

English, French, Hindi, Marathi

Payal Sampat worked at the Worldwatch Institute from June 1997 to September 2002 and is now affiliated with the Institute as a research fellow. She is currently the international campaign director at the Mineral Policy Center in Washington, DC.

  • “Scrapping Mining Dependence,” in State of the World 2003, W.W. Norton, 2003
  • “Last Words,” in World Watch, Vol. 14, No. 3, May/June 2001

Payal has testified before U.S. Congress (Subcommittee on Health and the Environment) on improving access to safe drinking water around the world, has addressed the Brazilian Environment Ministry in Brasilia on groundwater pollution, participated

Payal has appeared on the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, Voice of America, All India Radio, and NHK Television, and her work has been cited in over 1000 newspapers and wire services worldwi