Mr. Joy is with Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune, as a Senior Fellow. He has been an activist-researcher for more than 30 years in the development sector, especially in water management. He has been coordinating the work of the Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, a lose network of people who want to engage with issues related to water conflicts in India.He has a special interest in people’s institutions for natural resource management both at the grassroots and policy levels. His other areas of interest include water conflicts, drought and drought proofing, participatory irrigation management, river basin management, and multi-stakeholder processes, watershed-based development, resource literacy, right to water and sanitation, water ethics, and people’s movements