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Principles for Water Governance in a Post-COVID World: Water Sector Needs to Be Embedded in Environmental Justice

In: Reimagining Prosperity

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  • K. J. Joy

    (Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)
    Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India)

Abstract

This paper argues that the crisis in humanity’s relationship with water reflected in rapidly escalating demand and dangerously depleting freshwater and groundwater reserves, can be understood as the outcome of the anthropocentric assumptions underlying our current development models. These assumptions have given rise to both the challenge of severe water scarcity as well as to the kind of policies used to address it. Drawing on principles from an environmental justice framework, it calls for a drastic restructuring of the water sector on more equitable, sustainable and democratic lines. Some of the guiding principles for water governance that are suggested include ensuring that interventions in nature or river systems are along the contours of nature, focusing on managing the demand for water as against the present emphasis on supply augmentation, recognition of structural and historical inequities which determine access to water, adoption of an approach to water management that is adaptive to rapidly changing circumstances and promotion of the participation of all stakeholders in governance and knowledge production.

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  • K. J. Joy, 2023. "Principles for Water Governance in a Post-COVID World: Water Sector Needs to Be Embedded in Environmental Justice," Springer Books, in: Arash Fazli & Amitabh Kundu (ed.), Reimagining Prosperity, chapter 0, pages 201-221, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-7177-8_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_12
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