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Water Institutions: Policies, Performance and Prospects

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Chennat Gopalakrishnan

    1. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

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  2. Asit K. Biswas

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

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  3. Cecilia Tortajada
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  • The authors combine scholarship, real-world experience, and policy expertise
  • Wide ranging study, encompassing water institutions in local, national, and international settings

Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Water Allocation and Management in Hawaii: A Case of Institutional Entropy

    • Chennat Gopalakrishnan
    Pages 1-23

  3. Institutions for Resources Management: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

    • Asit K. Biswas
    Pages 24-45

  4. Water Institutions in India: Structure, Performance, and Change

    • R. Maria Saleth
    Pages 47-80

  5. Uphill Flow of Reform in China’s Irrigation Districts

    • James E. Nickum
    Pages 81-98

  6. Institutions for Water Management in Mexico

    • Cecilia Tortajada, Nancy Contreras-Moreno
    Pages 99-130

  7. Water Institutions in the Middle East

    • Peter Beaumont
    Pages 131-153

  8. Institutions in South African International River Basins

    • Anthony R. Turton, Anton Earle
    Pages 154-173

  9. Property Rights, Water Rights and the Changing Scene in Western Water

    • Charles W. Howe
    Pages 175-185

  10. Finding a Modern Role for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine in the American West

    • Ray Huffaker
    Pages 187-200

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 201-210
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It is being increasingly realised that water is likely to be one of the most critical resource issues for the first half of the twenty-first century. Accelerating demand for water for various uses and user groups and ineffective measures to address - ter quality decline from point and non-point sources of pollution, have made water management more complex and difficult than ever before in human history. All the current trends indicate that water management will become even more c- plex in the future because of society’s higher demands for good quality water, and new and emerging impacts on the water sector due to the forces of globalisation. These include the liberalisation of trade in agricultural and manufactured products, information and communication revolution, and technological developments in - eas traditionally not considered to be water-oriented, like biotechnology. Impacts of these new and emerging forces on the water sector are still not fully understood or appreciated at present, but they are likely to change water use practices d- matically in many countries of the world during the coming decades.

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"This study is a major, first attempt to address comprehensively and in-depth the many issues associated with the institutional innovation in water resource management. This book consists of nine original papers by a team of scholars and experts in water institutions and policies." (JAWRA, August, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

    Chennat Gopalakrishnan

  • Third World Centre for Water Management, Estado de México, Mexico

    Asit K. Biswas

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