Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance Book

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Changing the frame: repositioning policy. 3. The process of economic liberalization and private sector participation. 4. Water in the liberalization process. 5. Situating Delhi in the Water Reform Project. 6. Mainstreaming policy: discourses of power. 7. Creating spaces for change: collective Action on the Water Reform Project. 8. Understanding the Water Policy process.

"The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India’s diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose pro-privatization water policy reforms. These claims and counter claims are seen as an impending war over water resources, one that includes many different players with many different agendas located across a wide variety of sites whose actions and interactions shape policy production in India."