The water-short Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan are home to many such examples. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in Delhi has documented many cases of community-based ecological regeneration based on rainwater harvesting, a centuries-old range of Indian hydraulic technologies which had been eclipsed by the government's commitment to supplying rural water services free to communities since the 1960s (Agarwal and Narain, 1997). In the face of severe drought, communities have constructed tanks, check-dams, and other small structures to capture runoff in river-beds and wells. They have succeeded over time in recharging aquifers and transforming local eco-systems as well as their surrounding economies. Transparent and participatory decision-making