This young economist's analysis about scarcity of water in India is completely out of ground-level knowledge. It is a crap to argue for "water rights" and "incentives for farmers" to increase groundwater. It is even worse for "political incentives" and "property rights in water". Do not confuse the property rights with land and water. Its again the mainstream economists folly to do so.
You cannot isolate the role of local community managing the common resources like water bodies conservation, maintenance and making sustainable water bodies management for drinking, irrigation etc. The decades old political system has destroyed the age old reasonably good model of decentralized water management system that were existed for several hundreds years in every villages in India. All these were destroyed in the last thirty years! I have seen at least a 50 of them in the last five years in western part of Tamil Nadu. We have revived more than 30 now!!
You cannot isolate the role of local community managing the common resources like water bodies conservation, maintenance and making sustainable water bodies management for drinking, irrigation etc. The decades old political system has destroyed the age old reasonably good model of decentralized water management system that were existed for several hundreds years in every villages in India. All these were destroyed in the last thirty years! I have seen at least a 50 of them in the last five years in western part of Tamil Nadu. We have revived more than 30 now!!
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