Musi Rejuvenation: What International Financing Requires

The Musi River has a story worth telling—and worth saving. Once a lifeline for Hyderabad, it is today a degraded, polluted waterway, shaped by decades of unplanned growth and weak wastewater governance. The Telangana government’s ambition to rejuvenate it is, in principle, the right move. But if the state is counting on international financing for a project of this scale, it must also follow the process and requirements that such financing entails.