harnessing a scarce resource

text of the letter sent to Times of India:

Governor Rameshwar Thakur's call for constituting a 'Water Resources Regulatory Authority', vide the report in your columns on 26th March under the caption 'PPP can be answer to water scarcity', has not come a day too soon. Very much as the Chief Secretary has himself pointed out 'urban water bodies have failed miserably in supplying adequate water to citizens, and hence the need for PPP models'.

As long as the water resources are in the control of a duly constituted regulatory authority, the Socialists cannot raise the bogey of privatisation. And, as for water supply, it is too vital an infrastructure area not to have the benefits of competence and expertise that the organised sector players alone can garner.