Table of Contents:
  • Water crisis : the mainstream view
  • The water scene in India
  • Water governance
  • The question of politicisation
  • Re-examining past thinking
  • The question of demand
  • Crisis or crises?
  • Crisis of understanding
  • Apotheosis of fallacy : ILR project
  • Supply-side conundrum
  • Indus treaty : a re-examination
  • Differences over Baglihar
  • The Cauvery dispute : continuing impasse
  • The Punjab imbroglio
  • River-water disputes : some reflections
  • Narmada: abandoning the displaced
  • Profit versus life
  • Privatization, markets
  • Legal inadequacies and perplexities
  • Policies : muddled or worse?
  • Transforming the laws : a constitutional declaration on water?
  • Transforming the laws : a national water law?
  • Issues and concerns in the neighbourhood
  • Some international formulations : a critique
  • A parenthesis on a different view
  • Some glimmers of hope
  • Towards wisdom on water
  • The larger framework : new thinking for a changing world.