The document discusses the privatization of the X River in Chhattisgarh, India in 1998. The Madhya Pradesh government sold a 23 km stretch of the X River to Radius Water Limited for supplying water to an industrial estate. This was criticized for its environmental and social impacts. Activist Y discussed the issue of the X River privatization in his 2012 book Swaraj. Y was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for his grassroots activism and use of right to information legislation through the organization Parivartan.