Water Justice and Groundwater Subsidies in India: Equitable and Sustainable Access and Regulation

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Gayathri D. Naik

Water Justice and Groundwater Subsidies in India

Equitable and Sustainable Access and Regulation

Gayathri D. Naik

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Routledge
23 July 2024

Environment law; Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Drought & water supply

Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

This book examines the impact of water-related subsidies on social and distributive equity and environmental sustainability in groundwater access and regulation in India.

This book argues that adopting a water justice framework is essential to ensure equitable and sustainable access to and regulation of groundwater by balancing anthropogenic and ecological water needs. The inherent inequity resulting from property rights-controlled groundwater access gets widened by the social, political, and economic factors determining the subsidy beneficiaries. Adopting a socio-legal approach, this book draws on two contrasting case studies in India: Kerala, a water-secure state, and Rajasthan, an arid state. Arguing for a shift to a new paradigm in water governance, it critically examines the feasibility of the public trust doctrine and rights of nature discourse to analyse the best suitable regulatory framework that can balance the human right to water and ecological sustainability in groundwater resources. It demonstrates the feasibility of adopting various environmental law principles that balance human rights to water and nature. It argues that the hitherto highlighted public trust doctrine cannot address these inequities due to its anthropogenic bias and property rights link. This book examines the applicability of the rights of nature discourse instead of these property rights-based regulations to incorporate and mainstream the concerns of aquifer protection in water governance.

This book shall be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of water law and policy, environmental law, water and social justice, development studies, and political ecology.

By: Gayathri D. Naik
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781032659503
ISBN 10: 1032659505
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gayathri D. Naik is an assistant professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She holds a PhD in Water Law and Policy from SOAS University of London, UK, on the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship.