Inspite of surplus water and one of the world's richest traditions of managing it, India's water crisis has reached critical levels, an author of a new book on the subject has warned. Goa is one of the places former business and environmental journalist Nitya Jacob has studied in what he called an "ecological travelogue' across the Indian subcontinent, focused on water. In Goa, Jacob comes across the saline flood plains (khazaans), and the 3200 kms of dykes (bunds) built to protect them. "This labour is equivalent to building eight Egyptian pyramids,' he quotes the environmental report