4. Issues of
the most
vulnerable
Transport of water from long
distances:
problems of theft, breakage,
maintenance, corruption,
equity & lack of local control
5. •Indiscriminate use of ground
water resources
•Indiscriminate agricultural &
industrial practices
6. Government response:
centralised programmes
• Large dam construction, irrigation canals
• River-linking project
• Kalpasar dam
• Privatization of water services
• Unviable water pricing
• adhoc rain water harvesting, recharging & conservation efforts
7. Impact on the most vulnerable
• Health
• Conflict / violence
• Strong patriarchy
• Caste, class, gender,
religious discrimination
• Migration
8. Impact on the most vulnerable
•Salinity ingress & low agriculture
production
•Severe drinking water & sanitation
problems, other livelihood insecurity &
distress migration
•Decline in health status specially in
women, children & poor
•Increasing conflicts
9. Interventions
Organizing women’s groups
around major issues
Breaking barriers of caste/class
Savings & credit systems
Livelihood security
Challenging patriarchy
Evolving their own action plan
Demanding change from the
government / society
10. Interventions
Community mobilization
Protest against industrial
pollution (Amreli)
Demanding decentralised
safe drinking water
system
( Bhavnagar )
11. Negotiating &
demanding space for
equality
River basin
dialogue for
conflict resolution
12. Gender sensitive people centered
approaches in actions
Lining of the tank
Demanding decentralized
alternatives for better access &
control
14. Demonstrations of
alternatives by
communities on scale
Local water resource
building
Developing norms for
common property resource
use & management
15. Demonstrations of
alternatives by
communities on scale
Ecological sanitation