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Social Aspects and Conflicts
"Water conflicts in India have now percolated to every level. They are aggravated by the relative paucity of frameworks, policies and mechanisms to govern use of water resources. This collection of articles, part of a larger compendium, is an attempt to offer analyses of different aspects of water conflicts that plague India today. These conflicts, scale and nature, range over contending uses for water, issues of ensuring equity and allocation, water quality, problems of sand mining, dams and the displacement they bring in their wake, trans-border conflicts, problems associated with privatization as well as the various micro-level conflicts currently raging across the country. Effective conflict resolution calls for a consensual, multi-stakeholder effort from the grassroots upwards."

- BY: BIKSHAM GUJJA, K J JOY, SUHAS PARANJAPE, VINOD GOUD, SHRUTI VISPUTE
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The Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India is a consortium of organisations and individuals working on studying conflicts to understand and help resolve them. The Forum has come out with a book containing 63 case studies of water conflicts. The work of the Forum is entering its second phase.

16 of the case studies from the book are reproduced here with the permission of the authors. These case studies were first published in the Feb 18th 2006 issue of the Economic and Political Weekly.

We are grateful to the authors and EPW for permission to reproduce the case studies here.

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