[Reader-list] 28 May: Meeting on GROUNDWATER use, the looming crisis and the way forward

[Nagraj Adve]

DELHI PLATFORM, JALSAMVAAD, INDIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTE & SADED

invite you to a discussion on
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GROUNDWATER USE, THE LOOMING CRISIS AND THE WAY FORWARD

Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People
&
Anupam Mishra, Gandhi Peace Foundation

               will initiate the discussion by their presentations
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Water is integral to life and society but it is clear that equity and
sustainability have not driven the social frameworks and water systems
for competing demands on water. Worse still, there is little scope for
the poor and disempowered to assert their rights to fulfill basic
needs of water which affect their lives and livelihoods so deeply. The
misallocations to wasteful lifestyles of elites and inefficient or
socially wasteful industries have strained the ecosystem, whose vital
needs and logic can only be ignored at our own peril.

Himanshu Thakkar will talk about the increasing reliance on
groundwater to meet the growing demands for water and the needs of
most other water sub-sectors in an unsustainable way. Anupam Mishra
will focus on the desert context in Rajasthan, where water is
naturally scarce, and how some older societies have met the challenge,
raising broader questions on the linkages between state, society and
water (Raj, Samaj aur Pani).

The main purpose of organizing these discussions is to facilitate
discussion and further engagement.  After the initial presentations by
the speakers, we would urge you to share your views and participate
actively.

Venue: Room No. 304, Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road
(Nearest Metro station: Jor Bagh)
Date: 28 May 2011 Time: 5 pm-8 pm

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This meeting is part of an ongoing series of discussions that Delhi
Platform has been organizing on issues related to core concerns such
as the climate crisis, equity and sustainability. Earlier discussion
meetings have been around Water; Energy; Coal and its Costs; Nuclear
Energy in India and People’s Struggles; and Peak Oil and Urban
Agriculture.
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In solidarity,
Soumya Dutta (Delhi Platform)
Arun Bidani (Jal Samvaad)
Rajni Kant Mudgal (SADED)
Fr John (Indian Social Institute)


Tel: 9213763756 (Soumya Dutta), 9910476553 (Nagraj Adve), 43098327 (Arun Bidani)

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