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SUMMARY:"The Color of Water" Keynote Talk
LOCATION:Goldwin Smith Hall Lewis Auditorium (G76)\, 232 East Ave\, Centra
 l Campus
DESCRIPTION:"The Color of Water"\nP. Sainath\, Founder and editor of Peopl
 e’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)\nThursday\, November 5\, 2026\n4:30pm ⋅
  Lewis Auditorium (G76)\, Goldwin Smith Hall and Zoom\nReception and book
  signing to follow. Open to all.\n\nAbstract: Water-stressed India accoun
 ts for about 18% of the world’s population\, while possessing only 4% of 
 the planet’s renewable freshwater resources. This talk addresses systems 
 of water transfer --who controls it\, who pays for it\, and who goes with
 out—which are critical to understanding water scarcity. Transfers occur b
 etween classes\, as affluent households secure reliable supply while poor
 er neighborhoods queue at tankers. It moves between castes\, where access
  to wells and taps is governed by hierarchy rather than need. It moves be
 tween regions\, as dams and canals serve cities and favored districts at 
 the expense of drought-prone villages. It moves from agriculture to indus
 try\, as farmers lose allocations to factories and power plants. And it l
 eaves the country entirely as virtual water\, embedded in exported crops 
 and goods. Almost no one discusses who carries the burden of collection: 
 rural women who spend about 150 million working days fetching water\, by 
 one widely cited estimate. A new transfer is spreading quickly: data cent
 ers\, more than half of which sit in water-stressed regions with some sta
 tes like Maharashtra and Telangana classifying them as essential services
 \, which would put them ahead of households in a shortage. The question \
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