Water Policy Draft Is Convoluted

KP Narayana Kumar/Forbes India

The new water policy draft gives out contradictory signals by seeking to manage water as a community resource and, at the same time, calling it an economic good Earlier this month, an international water summit in Bangalore that discussed private sector participation in water delivery ended on a dry note when a show-closing Water Walkathon was abandoned after anti-privatisation activists stormed the streets.

One of the protestors, Kshitij Urs of Action Aid, says the event was an