Chennai saw the flood of the century in 2015, which claimed more than five hundred lives. Four years later, the city hit ‘day zero’, where all the city’s reservoirs dried, and 11.2 million residents had no water. The city’s fraught relationship with water is attributed to its mismanagement.
Moving Beyond Federal and Bureaucratic Hurdles
Lipika Ravichandran
GOVERNING WATER IN INDIA: INEQUALITY, REFORM, AND THE STATE by By Leela Fernandes University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2022, 298 pp., USD 32.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12