Sachin Tiwale
Biographic Data
| ID | 388741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sachin Tiwale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sachin |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiwale |
| SIGNATURE | TIWALE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Water and Society Programme, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8469-7073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technopolitics of water appropriation: How Mumbai claims hydrological dominance in its metropolitan region
The paper advances scholarship on water appropriation by examining the appropriation process at the metropolitan scale, foregrounding inequities in intra-metropolitan water distribution, and applying the lens of technopolitics to deepen insight into the processes underpinning water appropriation. It illustrates how water is legitimately appropriated for the city of Mumbai, depriving other municipal corporations, councils, and industrial centres w…
Wl-7182-Serving a Pipe Dream - Alternatives to Centralised Piped Water Supply in Two Metro Cities in India
The paper examines the dependency of households on the centralised piped water supply (CPWS) in two metropolitan cities of India—Kolkata and Chennai. The paper underscores the limitations of CPWS in achieving a universal water supply and its perceived dominance as the sole technological choice by decision makers. Despite the access to CPWS, households across the class routinely access water from alternative sources, such as Packaged Drinking Wate…
RED 2024-(wl 7349)-From integration to fragmentation: False pursuit of technocratic and quick-fix solutions to address water scarcity
In recent years, Maharashtra, a pioneering state in developing the integrated watershed development approach, has shifted to technocratic, quick-fix, and fragmented approaches to address water scarcity. Ignoring past policy experiences, these approaches, driven by techno-optimism and reliant on machine-led interventions, neglect associated social processes and basic hydrological principles, thereby rendering them ineffective in addressing water s…
What standards do and whom they serve: Fixing, practising and delivering per capita water supply standards in cities in India
This paper examines how the per capita standards of water supply are fixed, practised and delivered in cities in India. The per capita standard of water supply is a key figure in deciding the quantum of water cities can extract from adjacent regions and the amount of water individual citizens are entitled to consume. It is one of the critical parameters determining the sizing of the urban water infrastructure from the source to tap. The analysis …
Taming' a Wicked Problem: Selective Problematisation of Issues of Urban Water Supply in Mumbai
The lack of universal urban water access in the cities in the global south is a wicked problem. Using the case of Mumbai, this paper illustrates how consistently this wicked problem was chiselled and selectively problematised to turn it into a tame problem - a problem of water shortages at the city level. The chiselling included neglecting the essential aspects of urban water supply, such as supply coverage, pressure and leakages, which define th…
Materiality matters: Revealing how inequities are conceived and sustained in the networked water infrastructure - The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
Materiality matters: Revealing how inequities are conceived and sustained in the networked water infrastructure - The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
Wl-7182-Serving a Pipe Dream - Alternatives to Centralised Piped Water Supply in Two Metro Cities in India
The paper examines the dependency of households on the centralised piped water supply (CPWS) in two metropolitan cities of India—Kolkata and Chennai. The paper underscores the limitations of CPWS in achieving a universal water supply and its perceived dominance as the sole technological choice by decision makers. Despite the access to CPWS, households across the class routinely access water from alternative sources, such as Packaged Drinking Wate…
RED 2024-(wl 7349)-From integration to fragmentation: False pursuit of technocratic and quick-fix solutions to address water scarcity
In recent years, Maharashtra, a pioneering state in developing the integrated watershed development approach, has shifted to technocratic, quick-fix, and fragmented approaches to address water scarcity. Ignoring past policy experiences, these approaches, driven by techno-optimism and reliant on machine-led interventions, neglect associated social processes and basic hydrological principles, thereby rendering them ineffective in addressing water s…
What standards do and whom they serve: Fixing, practising and delivering per capita water supply standards in cities in India
This paper examines how the per capita standards of water supply are fixed, practised and delivered in cities in India. The per capita standard of water supply is a key figure in deciding the quantum of water cities can extract from adjacent regions and the amount of water individual citizens are entitled to consume. It is one of the critical parameters determining the sizing of the urban water infrastructure from the source to tap. The analysis …
Taming' a Wicked Problem: Selective Problematisation of Issues of Urban Water Supply in Mumbai
The lack of universal urban water access in the cities in the global south is a wicked problem. Using the case of Mumbai, this paper illustrates how consistently this wicked problem was chiselled and selectively problematised to turn it into a tame problem - a problem of water shortages at the city level. The chiselling included neglecting the essential aspects of urban water supply, such as supply coverage, pressure and leakages, which define th…
Technopolitics of water appropriation: How Mumbai claims hydrological dominance in its metropolitan region
The paper advances scholarship on water appropriation by examining the appropriation process at the metropolitan scale, foregrounding inequities in intra-metropolitan water distribution, and applying the lens of technopolitics to deepen insight into the processes underpinning water appropriation. It illustrates how water is legitimately appropriated for the city of Mumbai, depriving other municipal corporations, councils, and industrial centres w…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Water resources management and optimization (3 works) · Water supply (3 works) · Water Systems and Optimization (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)