This book attempts to demonstrate the history of Kayal reclamation, Present-day land, and water management and also attempts to show the vulnerability of people to flood in a below mean sea level wetland Kuttanad. Land and water are the most common natural resources on the earth. Human civilizations have flourished in areas where fresh water is available in sufficient quantity and managed properly. Similar is the case of availability and management of land. Thus man has tried to reclaim land from sea/ocean/wetland. Moreover, such reclamation leads to the transformation of the natural water...