Villagers all along the coastal and mid-ridge zone of Goa have found an ingenious way of ensuring livelihoods security, not from better crop harvests but from trading water from their private wells. While exact number of those selling water is not known, the trend is quite common across the ultimate travel destination. Though Goa had enacted its Ground Water Regulation Act in 2002, delay in framing the rules have allowed people like the Kudnekar brothers to sell water from their private well in village Saligao. Once a popular hippy haunt, Saligao is now home to a brimming controversy in water trade that has brought the entire village up in arms against the duo.