Global Water Ethics & Indian environmental Philosophy

  Anupam Mishra

ARTICLE:
Water, the Sacred and the Commons of Rajasthan: A Review of Anupam Mishra’s Philosophy of Water                                            
                                                         Ricki Levi & Daniel Mishori∗

 The Hydro-Ecological Self and the Community of Water: Anupam Mishra and the Epistemological Foundation of Water Traditions in Rajasthan

Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia

The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result of monolithic actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating to water in a variety of settings and knowledge systems.

With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another. While it is difficult to carry out comprehensive research on water knowledge in Asia due to its linguistic, political and cultural fragmentation, the topic nevertheless has relevance across boundaries. By using a carefully chosen selection of case-studies in a variety of locations and across diverse disciplines, the book demonstrates commonalities and differences in everyday water practices around Asia while challenging both romantic presumptions and eurocentrism.

Examples presented include class differences in water use in the megacity of Delhi, the impact of radiation on water practices in Fukushima (Japan), the role of the King in hydraulic practices in Thailand, and ritual irrigation in Bali.

https://www.routledge.com/Water-Knowledge-and-the-
Environment-in-Asia-Epistemologies-practices/Baghel-Stepan-Hill/p/book/9781138685550 

Water, virtue ethics and traditional ecological knowledge in Rajasthan: Anupam Mishra and the rediscovery of water traditions 

Global Water Ethics

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice.

Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of "water ethics" in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal "water ethics charter", alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics.

Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science.

https://www.routledge.com/Global-Water-Ethics-Towards-a-
global-ethics-charter/Ziegler-Groenfeldt/p/book/9781138204294