India’s civil society has opposed engineering-based water management such as large dams, river linking and canal irrigation, for environmental and social reasons, but often ideological reasons.
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Chetan Pandit, National Water Academy of India's Central Water Commission and Asit K. Biswas, University of Glasgow
India’s civil society, which for the past 30 years has been critical of India’s water policies, now has the opportunity to drive the policy recommendations for water management.