If Punjab and Haryana have wasted costly water resources while contending on the bloody Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal, then Gujarat , Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan have not been wise either . They have deprived their people of drinking water, irrigation and power while wasting scarce resources. If the northern states could not decide about the sharing of the quantum of water, much of which goes waste now, their counterparts in central and western India have been cavalier enough to allow starvation deaths on one hand and presperity and good health on another.