‘Social Cost and Individual Benefit’: A Study on the political Economy of Water Crisis of Illegal Slum Dwellers in Mumbai and Community Members in Rural Kerala

The right to water has been accepted as a human right, however, the practice and context of right is often subjected to bureaucratic boundaries. The politically incorrect mode of operation in one region of the country becomes politically correct in another region. In both the cases, the right to water is being subjected to market interventions. The state and community are involving a process which led the drinking water privatisation.