Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization

The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to these infrastructures. This book is a unique study of the politics of water supply infrastructures in three metropolitan cities in contemporary India #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi. Gopakumar examines the process of change in water supply infrastructures initiated by notable Public Private Partnerships efforts in these three cities to reveal the complexity of state-society relations in India at multiple levels #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; at the state, city and neighborhood levels.