CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Preamble: Understanding Water I. Understanding the Crisis 1. Water Crisis: The Mainstream View 2. The Water Scene in India 3. Water Governance 4. The Question of Politicisation 5. Re-Examining Past Thinking 6. The Question of Demand 7. Crisis or Crises? 8. Crisis of Understanding 9. Apotheosis of Fallacy: ILR Project 10. Supply-Side Conundrum II. Understanding Conflicts: River-Water Disputes 11. Indus Treaty: A Re-Examination 12. Differences Over Baglihar 13. The Cauvery Dispute: Continuing Impasse 14. The Punjab Imbroglio 15. River-Water Disputes: Some Reflections III. Conflicts of Other Kinds 16. Narmada: Abandoning the Displaced 17. Profit versus Life 18. Privatization, Markets IV. Making Sense of Laws and Policies 19. Legal Inadequacies and Perplexities 20. Policies: Muddled or Worse? 21. Transforming the Laws: A Constitutional Declaration on Water? 22. Transforming the Laws: A National Water Law? V. Taking Note of Others Thinking 23. Issues and Concerns in the Neighbourhood 24. Some International Formulations: A Critique 25. A Parenthesis on a Different View VI. Drawing the Threads Together 26. Some Glimmers of Hope 27. Towards Wisdom on Water 28. The Larger Framework: New Thinking for a Changing World Epilogue Appendix I: List of Authors Writings References and Select Bibliography Index About the Author