wl-3344-Conflicts over Water: A Socio-political Understanding of Water Crisis

This paper highlights the crisis of availability of water and the need to recognise it as a global problem. It uses the concept of water stress to problematise the matter and show that the social sciences have not responded to this alarming and imminent threat that would affect the marginalised populations of the world. It argues that the crisis is anthropogenic and not the result of simple natural causes. Further, it argues for a just hydraulic order that takes the wisdom of the people into confidence and not merely that of the ‘experts and introduces the concept of hydraulic justice to the discussions around the subject.