Hybrid drinking water governance: Community participation and ongoing neoliberal reforms in rural Rajasthan, India

► Conflict between the state's responsibility as provider of welfare and of clean water. ► Ongoing neoliberal reforms enabled the continuing provision of contaminated water. ► Multi-scale regulatory shifts in water governance led to hybrid neoliberalisms. ► Payment collectors and village-scale water markets cope with an intractable state. ► Villagers did not want to labor for free, privatize water governance inside village.