Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State Fernandes Leela
Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State Fernandes Leela The challenges of managing resource use in the world's largest democracyIntensifying droughts and competing pressures on…
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Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State Fernandes Leela
The challenges of managing resource use in the world's largest democracyIntensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy."Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use.
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