Two exciting stories, Eminent discussant.; enjoy your time. Background: Documentation of water stories from Northeast India was perceived in the first-ever “NE Water Talk” held in December 2019 at Guwahati. This webinar (Water Talk) series is a part of “NE Water Talk” to connect people with water. We are looking forward to your active participation and feedback. Rabindranath “Ravi” was an electrical engineer by profession. He shifted his career to social work, came down to the northeast during the eighties, started work in Arunachal Pradesh, and finally settled down in Akajan Gaon. He turning villages and communities in flood-ravaged regions into institutions prepared to predict, confront, and cope with floods, turning a one-time calamity into opportunities for people to create new and alternative livelihoods. He was an Ashoka Fellow in 2007. Ravindranath He formed the Rural Volunteer centre, one of the best social organizations in the country in the village. Now the President of VHA of Assam. He was Former taskforce member NDMA ,MoH. Former Executive Director ,SAMPDA. A network of Barefoot College. Rajsthan. Mr Monoj Gogoi is a post-graduate in English literature and teaching in a college. He has vast experience working with various news channels, contributes research articles on various English and Assamese newspapers, and write columns to web portals. Besides teaching, Gogoi is deeply engaged with Climate Change, Water, Agriculture and Rural Economy in Assam. Pachani Camp - where every single drop of water counts! Such a situation of human suffering to a distant compassionate observer is suffocating, but it may be a pretty different experience for the people in the Panchani community and the Mising indigenous community under whose administration the human problem lies. It is also the same pathetic situation of modern society – how it is easy for the government to pick a group of labour at will, relocate them for their labour for development constructions and dump them as if they are worn out parts of machineries to their fate when the work is over! Many such struggles of water for thousands of ‘development induced’ displaced communities raise fundamental questions: What is ‘the development’ all about which is carried at the expanse of fundamental human rights for certain sections of society and permanent loss of ecological systems? Whose is this development for, anyway, if it condemns the human labours like worn-out old machinery? What is the nature of the political class that manages a democratic country this way? Panchani Camp is a story of human suffering so well captured by Monoj Gogoi, is another loud reminder to rethink politics, governance, development and economy. Nandini Thockksom has worked as a NE Coordinator at the National Commission of Women in Delhi, after which she worked briefly with the Manipur State Commission for Women. She also co-founded Indigenous Perspectives. Champu Khangpok: The floating village of Loktak This story around the Loktak is still in the struggling stage without much clarity on how the best indigenous community can meaningfully be involved and participate in the lack of conservation and also drawn limited livelihood resources within its carrying capacity the Lake ecosystem. The amendment of the Loktak Protection Act 2006 within the framework of the Ramsar Convention is major a milestone and a tool for mediating the conflict between the Govt/Lake Authority and the local indigenous people. The question is, who will bell the cat? Or who will be trusted equally, both by the Govt and people, to facilitate a dialogue between the two?