The proceedings of the Consultation on “Emerging Water Regulatory Frameworks and Related Reforms in Water Governance in Karnataka” that was held on 02 September 2009 at Bangalore. Please do send us your comments.

In continuation with our efforts within Karnataka we have taken up two initiatives:

1. Review of the ongoing reform processes in Urban Water Governance, with a special focus on the establishment of the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Council.
2. Preparation of a general reader on water governance in the form of a booklet with a special focus on regulatory reforms in Karnataka, available both in Karnataka and Kannada (targeted at non-academic audiences such as NGO's and CSO's).

If you have anything similar carried out in your respective organisations or states, we very much appreciate if you could share such material to help us prepare the booklet for Karnataka.

We will be circulating the draft copy of this booklet and the final report of the review work carried out on "emerging water regulatory frameworks and related reforms in Karnataka", that led us to organise the very useful consultation workshop in a couple of weeks. We will appreciate your comments.

I thank you all once again for participating in the workshop and providing your inputs to the key issues relevant to Karnataka, and also to the broader debate within regulatory reforms within India.

Regards,
Shrini

Shrinivas Badiger, PhD
Fellow,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment,
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO,
Bangalore - 560064. Karnataka.
www.atree.org