Goa, Feb. 1 -- Giving up Mhadei is giving up of our water sovereignty and more. We need water satyagraha to restore our water sovereignty and the people of Goa have already embraced it.

Squandering our water sovereignty amounts to squandering the sovereignty of Goa. The costs of the loss of water sovereignty are high for our ecology and all living brings existing on the water course of Mhadei. This is why our water sovereignty is a shared sovereignty.

The challenge to save Mhadei, therefore, has become urgent and inevitable. There is no time to waste. We have to get our act quickly. We cannot be Goans of yesterday. Yesterday divides us. We have our differences that divide us. But we have to rise above them and become Goans of today and st...