Seeing Water Differently

Vishal Narain ()
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Vishal Narain: Management Development Institute (MDI)

Chapter Chapter 13 in Reimagining Prosperity, 2023, pp 223-235 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper suggests that the pandemic offers an opportunity to alter narratives about crucial public policy areas. According to the author, narratives play an important role in framing public policy. The kind of solutions proposed depends on narratives that shape our understanding of the problem. Based on this premise, the author posits that the narrative around water needs to be reset from a mistaken focus on scarcity to the issue of unequal access. He elaborates on the implications of distributional inequities faced on the basis of class, caste, gender and geographic location in India. In light of this reading, the paper calls for greater sensitivity to existing forms of social, economic and political discrimination in the drafting of water policies. The author stresses the need for interdisciplinarity in water resources education to prepare professionals in this field to approach the complexities of water governance.

Keywords: Narratives; Public policy; Political ecology of water; Gender Mainstreaming; Peri-Urban Spaces; Wastewater management; Interdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_13

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