Water, Sacred Culture and Conservation in India: An Anthropological Overview

Through this article, the authors narrate the cultural dimension of water through wide-range rituals practised in India using the historical approach and build up their significance traditionally for (human) ecology and conservation. The authors also discuss the changing perspective of water usages and conservation with the emergence of growing material and consumer culture. Primarily, the article is developed as a perspective with an intention to sensitise about the issue of global water conservation.