# India Water Canvas

A public-good infrastructure artefact for India's water situation, systems, and place-based interventions. CC BY-NC 4.0 · open data · open methodology.

**v2.0 LEMMA architecture** · place-based · climate-aware · audit-honest.

## Quick links

- **Live dashboard** → [`dashboard.html`](dashboard.html) · or visit `https://waterdashboard.in/` once DNS is live
- **Architecture constitution** → [`architecture.md`](architecture.md)
- **Methodology** → [`methodology.html`](methodology.html)
- **Audit methodology** → [`audit.md`](audit.md)
- **Maintenance + curation contract** → [`maintenance.md`](maintenance.md)
- **Open data** → [`data/`](data/) · 11 CSVs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- **Prose folder** → 14 chapters · `landscape.md` → `build-plan.md`

## v2.0 LEMMA · the five primitives

**L** Legibility · **E** Engagement · **M** Measurement · **M** Movement · **A** Audit

Place-anchored. Climate-aware. The artefact embodies the audit muscle it advocates for.

## Read this artefact in 60 seconds

Open `dashboard.html`. Default view = India. Pick a state · city · or basin from the Geography dropdown. Five zones rewire to your place:

1. **PLACE** · what's true here (H/A/I · binding loop · climate stake · water bodies · plain-language summary · Hindi where available)
2. **ENGAGEMENT** · who's working on it (partners · funders · market vendors + failed canon)
3. **MOVEMENT** · what's moving year over year (7 axes · directional fidelity markers)
4. **ADAPT** · climate strategies (adaptation + mitigation · place-relevant highlights)
5. **AUDIT** · where claims don't match reality (6 cross-reference lanes · 27 seeded claims)

Plus the action drawer (8 pre-filled contribution paths · including anonymous).

## Status

**v2.0 draft · invitation for review · canon is open.** Hard launch held pending reader-test feedback + legal scaffolding on the audit lanes.

Reader-test outreach: see [`outreach-templates.md`](outreach-templates.md).

## Contribute

Every blank field in the dashboard has a "contribute →" link routing to a pre-filled GitHub issue. 14-day response commitment from the maintainer.

Categories:
- `[Correction]` · factual error · 14-day SLA
- `[Ground-Truth]` · place-level observation
- `[Audit-Discrepancy]` · claim-vs-reality gap (use anonymous channel for sensitive ground-truth)
- `[Partner-Add]` / `[Funder-Add]` / `[Market-Add]` · new entity
- `[Vernacular-Add]` · Hindi · Tamil · Telugu · Marathi · Bengali summaries welcome
- `[Review-Request]` · external review with optional endorsement badge
- `[Cost-Estimate]` / `[State-Data]` / `[City-Data]` · fill blanks

## Cite this work

```
Kulkarni, A. (2026). India Water Canvas v2.0: A public-good place-based infrastructure
artefact for India water. CC BY-NC 4.0.
https://github.com/Ashwask/india-water-canvas
```

See [`CITATION.cff`](CITATION.cff) for the machine-readable citation.

## Project history

This repo was split from `Ashwask/RFPartnerMap` at v2.0 (commit `0bff41d` · 2026-05-12). Pre-v2.0 history (v1.0 release · Pattern B architecture experiments · v1.x intermediate state) lives in the parent repo. v2.0 onwards lives here. Snapshots preserved at [`v1.0/`](v1.0/) and [`v1.x/`](v1.x/).

## License

CC BY-NC 4.0 · see [`LICENSE`](LICENSE).

## Author

Ashwin Kulkarni · independent capacity · until Y1 anchor signed.

Maintained as a draft commitment · see [`maintenance.md`](maintenance.md).