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This is the second part of a three part series on the Kumbh mela recently held in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. Read the first part here<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cShipra is not just a river; it\u2019s much more than that. When the gods battled demons over nectar, a drop of it fell in the river. That\u2019s why it is eternal and that\u2019s why we come here during the Kumbh, to bathe in the river and be closer to the Gods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like his forebears before him, 70-year-old Bhimdev Paliwal was telling a tale of faith and tradition to his grandson and other children in a makeshift tent on the banks of the Shipra River in Ujjain, an ancient city in central India. Paliwal had led a group of his extended family and neighbours from Dausa in the western state of Rajasthan to take a holy dip during the month long Kumbh Mela in May.<\/p>\n

Paliwal \u2014 and so many more like him \u2014 would have been shaken to the core had he known the river that promised everlasting life was itself dying. The water that flowed past placidly had been pumped in from the Narmada, scores of miles away. Decades of neglect and mismanagement, and the recent years of drought, had reduced the Shipra to less a river and more a stinking drain of domestic and industrial waste. It was on life support, fed on Narmada water driven by electric pumps through 50-km-long concrete pipes.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time a river in India has been \u2018resurrected\u2019 in this manner. The Sabarmati in Ahmedabad was magically transformed in 2005 when water from the Narmada meant to irrigate parched farms in northern Gujarat was diverted to its dead channel instead. The cricket matches on the dry riverbed were left behind and a massive riverfront development project<\/a> is now expected to add gloss to the city.<\/p>\n

The National Democratic Alliance government in New Delhi has put its weight behind a mammoth river-linking programme that is expected to cost INR 5.6 trillion (USD 83 billion) at 2002 prices, with an annual outlay of INR 1.6 billion to be spent over 35 years. The plan, which seeks to transfer \u201cexcess\u201d water from one river basin to another for irrigation, domestic and industrial use and generate 34,000 MW of hydropower, has been frequently criticised<\/a> for being hydrologically and environmentally unsound and hugely expensive. The federal government has already announced many such linking projects despite misgivings<\/a> by experts and affected populations.<\/p>\n

See: <\/strong>Linking rivers will not save Bundelkhand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Politics of water<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rejuvenation of the Sabarmati in Gujarat and the Shipra in Madhya Pradesh by diverting water from the Narmada are showpiece projects of the linking scheme that pay fat political dividends, provincial administrations have found. \u201cRejuvenating Sabarmati was an opportunistic move. It was not planned,\u201d says Somnath Bandyopadhyay, associate professor at the School of Ecology and Environmental Studies at Nalanda University. \u201cThe water of Narmada from the Sardar Sarovar dam was made available before the irrigation infrastructure was ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

The diversion of Narmada waters into the Sabarmati channel had at least one major consequence. \u201cThe people in Ahmedabad loved the sight of a flowing Sabarmati,\u201d says Bandyopadhyay, who worked at Gujarat Ecology Commission for many years. \u201cPublic opinion was created and riverfront development became possible.\u201d Sabarmati is a dead river for most practical purposes, he says. \u201cAll dams on rivers in north Gujarat are over-designed and hence water in the downstream is extremely rare. This is true for Sabarmati downstream of Dharoi. Circuses and cricket matches were common on the Sabarmati riverbed in Ahmedabad before the Narmada waters filled it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The rejuvenated Sabarmati in Ahmedabad [image by Soumya Sarkar]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The decision to rejuvenate the Sabarmati was taken by the state government led by Narendra Modi, who was then chief minister of Gujarat. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies rode to power in New Delhi<\/a> with a huge mandate in 2014. As Prime Minister, Modi has continued to support the interlinking of rivers.<\/p>\n

The Shipra-Narmada linking project was announced with great fanfare by the Madhya Pradesh government in May 2013 before state assembly elections<\/a> were held in November later that year. The incumbent BJP led by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won with a comfortable majority. It is possible that the project announcement<\/a> played a role in BJP\u2019s excellent performance in the Malwa region. The flowing Shipra made a happy impression on the gathering of as many as 60 million people in the Kumbh Mela this year.<\/p>\n

Such diversions of large quantities of water are inevitable if the authorities continue to indulge in short-term populism, experts say. \u201cThe politics of water is extremely tense and complicated in India, where expediency often overrides good sense,\u201d says Himanshu Thakkar, co-ordinator of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, an advocacy group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe basic issue is to de-politicize water management. If it remains political, it will certainly move in the direction of vested interests \u2014 sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra, industries in Kachchh (in Gujarat) or Delhi,\u201d says Bandyopadhyay. \u201cGovernments will make allocations for competing uses as per their political considerations unless there is a way to freeze allocations \u2014 as a proportion of total water availability in a river, perhaps \u2014and then allow the market to determine its best use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entitlement matters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Such unplanned diversions are a subversion of people\u2019s rights, says Thakkar. \u201cThere has been a gradual transfer of water rights to urban and industrial users, away from farms and ecosystems. This is being done in a completely non-transparent manner. This will lead to unrest and volatility in many sections of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bandyopadhyay agrees. \u201cEssentially what we are witnessing is a race among states to stake claim on interstate river waters, and the Narmada is no exception. People’s traditional rights are extinguished (by present laws) the moment state infrastructure is built.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cThe law of the land says that states can access river waters as per their need. Need is defined in terms of their capacity to use water, chiefly for irrigation. The Kaveri water dispute is a classic example. Downstream Tamil Nadu built huge a canal network to establish its claims over Kaveri waters and only a fraction has been used,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\n

There is no way to entirely do away with inter-state rivalry over waters of a river basin. As temperatures rise across India due to climate change and water becomes scarcer, this competition has the potential to cause great harm. \u201cThe allocation of water of river basins has to be done in an equitable and transparent manner,\u201d says Thakkar. \u201cThe government needs to involve all stakeholders before it chalks out any plan to redistribute this vital resource.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is required is the recognition of people’s rights on river waters. Once the rights are established, transfers should be allowed in order for the water to flow to its most efficient use, whether agriculture, industry or domestic supplies in cities,\u201d says Bandyopadhyay. \u201cCalifornia is a good example of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The robust flow of the Narmada at Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh [image by Soumya Sarkar]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Thakkar is worried that the decisions of the government will increasingly be skewed towards business interests. Industries in Pithampur near Ujjain, which expect to benefit from the Shipra-Narmada link, have already started lobbying the government for increased allocations. \u201cIn absence of credible wastewater treatment system and governance, more water for industry would mean more untreated industrial effluents into the Shipra River, worsening the problems for the river and the people,\u201d Thakkar wrote in a note<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cWater is now a scarce resource and must be allocated to current users,\u201d says Bandyopadhyay. \u201cThe government only needs to enforce rights and uphold contracts.\u200b\u201d<\/p>\n

Rajendra Singh \u2013 known as India\u2019s waterman, winner of the World Water Prize and the Magsaysay Award \u2013 has repeatedly said the right to water should be as fundamental as the right to food, and has demanded that this be enshrined in law.<\/p>\n

See <\/strong>India\u2019s waterman demands water security law<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Before the 2014 parliament elections, Singh teamed up with other water right activists to form the Jal Jan Jodo Abhiyaan (Water and People Connect Movement). They drafted a water security bill that seeks to transfer water rights to panchayats and municipalities, the smallest unit of democratic government under the Indian system. It is perhaps instructive that the bill got no mention in any party\u2019s manifesto before the poll or in the programme of any central or state government ministry since then.<\/p>\n

Soumya Sarkar is the editor of indiaclimatedialogue.net<\/a>. This article first appeared there. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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