(A version of this piece appeared in Bloomberg Quint on Dec 02, 2018) Case Study 2: Telangana The politics of building water resilience – a problem of timelines In Telangana, politics is water, and water defines politics, in a connection that stretches back through the sea of history. The Kakatiya dynasty, who ruled Telangana from …
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Case Study 1: Madhya Pradesh Given the effort to shift all the necessary pieces of the water management equilibrium, governments shift what they can – often only one or two pieces. But, moving some, but not other pieces, can have unforeseen consequences. Such was the case in Madhya Pradesh (MP), the poster-child of sound water …
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(A version of this story appeared in Firstpost on Dec 02, 2018) Of late, I’ve been asked one question above any other: “Is it possible to fix India’s water crisis?”. My answer has been, “Yes, it’s possible.” But is it probable? That is a different story. The story so far… In the course of the …
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