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Notes
1. The National Water Development Agency offers a web-facilitated dialogue on IBWT (http://nwda.gov.in). It is not clear whether the authors and/or editors availed of this service to seek clarifications. This could have clarified several issues and concerns voiced by them.
2. Perhaps more objectionable, and surprising since the author is an engineer, are remarks such as ‘engineers are not above manipulation’ (p. 84) and ‘they [engineers] can be made to agree to almost everything (for personal benefits)’ (p. 86). It is a pity that such comments were not edited, for they suggest a bias harboured by the contributors and raise doubts about the circumspection of the editors.
3. The author's concept and definition of ‘surplus’ in this discussion is rather vague.
4. The author also claims that climate change can interfere with water resources development plans but provides no information, which suggests that this view is not based on an evaluation but on perception.
5. Perhaps here lies the real agenda.
6. The essay states that one of the authors collected diagrams from the National Water Development Agency in 2004 about yearly inputs/outputs in the Himalayan Component. Surprisingly, other authors in this volume complain that these data are not available.
7. Bradford Morse was Chairman of an Independent Review Committee for Sardar Sarovar Project of India (Morse Commission, Citation1992).
8. The governments of India and Bangladesh entered into a Ganga (Ganges) Water (at Farakka) Sharing Treaty in December 1996 after protracted negotiations.
9. Formerly, Secretary to India's Ministry of Water Resources, Secretary General ICID and Member Secretary India's Task Force on ILR (IBWT).