Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms
Title | Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780821344606 |
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in India. India faces an increasingly urgent situation with its finite and fragile water resources being stressed and depleted while various sectoral demands are growing rapidly. 'Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms' offers detailed solutions to this complex and important concern.
Water Law, Poverty, and Development
Title | Water Law, Poverty, and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Cullet |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2009-07-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0191562971 |
This monograph comprehensively examines water law regulations and reform in the present decade, going beyond a simple analysis of existing water law and regulations to encompass environmental, social, economic, and human rights aspects of water as a natural resource. Using the specific case of India and on the related international law and policy framework that directly influences water regulatory developments in India, this book offers what will be the first and only analysis of water law reforms taking place at the national level in many developing countries in their domestic and international context. On the one hand, international freshwater law remains under-developed and existing legal instruments such as the 1997 UN Convention only address a limited set of relevant issues. Yet, the international law and policy framework concerning freshwater is increasingly important in shaping up law reforms taking place at the national level, in particular in developing countries. Indeed, non-binding resolutions such as the Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development (1992) have had an immense influence on water law reforms in most developing countries. This book seeks to conceive of and analyse freshwater regulation in a broader context, and go beyond a literature that either lauds or criticises ongoing water sector reforms to provide an analytical basis for the reforms which all countries will have to adopt in the near or medium-term future.
Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms
Title | Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms PDF eBook |
Author | Vishal Narain |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3319251848 |
This book reviews and analyzes emerging challenges in water policy, governance and institutions in India. Recent times have seen the contours of water policy shaped by new discourses and narratives; there has been a pluralization of the state and a changing balance of power among the actors who influence the formulation of water policy. Discourses on gender mainstreaming and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) are influential, though they have often remained rhetorical and difficult to put into practice. Debate over property rights reform and inter-linking of rivers has been polarized. At the same time, there has been a rising disenchantment with policy initiatives in participatory irrigation management, cleaning up of water bodies and pollution control. Fast depletion of groundwater resources and the importance of adopting new irrigation methods are getting increased focus in the recent policy dialogue. The contributors review current debate on these and other subjects shaping the governance of water resources, and take stock of new policy developments. The book examines the experience of policy implementation, and shows where important weaknesses still lie. The authors present a roadmap for the future, and discuss the potential of alternative approaches for tackling emerging challenges. A case is made for greater emphasis on a discursive analysis of water policy, to examine underlying policy processes. The contributors observe that the ongoing democratization of water governance, coupled with the multiplication of stresses on water, will create a more visible demand for platforms for negotiation, conflict resolution and dialogue across different categories of users and uses. Finally, the authors propose that future research should challenge implicit biases in water resources planning and address imbalances in the allocation of water from the perspectives of both equity and sustainability.
Water Policy Processes in India
Title | Water Policy Processes in India PDF eBook |
Author | Vandana Asthana |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2009-09-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1135219192 |
Water Policy Processes in India covers a critical gap in the literature by analyzing the process through which policies in India are developed and implemented, investigating the aims and motives behind policies, and identifying the potential areas of intervention in order improve the policy process in both its development and implementation stages.
Water Security in India
Title | Water Security in India PDF eBook |
Author | Vandana Asthana |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1441118225 |
Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.
Water Law in India
Title | Water Law in India PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Cullet |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199091358 |
First published in 2011, Water Law in India is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the legal instruments concerning water in India. It presents a variety of national and state-level instruments that make up the complex and diverse field of water law and policy. This book fills a critical gap in the study of water law, providing a rich reference point for the entire gamut of legal mechanisms available in India. This edition has been extensively revised to include new instruments on water regulation, such as the draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016, and the Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Act, 2016; new water-related instruments in such varied fields as criminal law, land acquisition law, and rural employment legislation; and a chapter on international legal instruments. Chapters on drinking water supply, environmental dimensions of water conservation, water infrastructure for irrigation and flood control, groundwater regulation, and institutions catering to water have been thoroughly updated for a complete coverage of water law.
Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity
Title | Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity PDF eBook |
Author | Josefina Maestu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415638216 |
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. One of the key water management options for water demand is water trading. This book explores the role of water trading, as an instrument of integrated water resources management.