Rivers, technology, and society : learning the lessons of water management in Nepal

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    • Gyawali, Dipak

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Rivers, technology, and society : learning the lessons of water management in Nepal

Dipak Gyawali

Zed Books, 2003

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"... first published in Nepal in 2001 as Water in Nepal by Himal Books and Panos South Asia with Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index

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Description

This engaging examination of the fate of Nepal's premier natural resource has a significance that transcends both the specific experience of Nepal and the water sector. Water engineer, economist and social activist, Dipak Gyawali has an international reputation as one of the most important thinkers around the central issues of water and development. In this book he argues for the necessity of moving away from a technocratic approach, to take full account of the social and political context of any development intervention, focusing on the costs and benefits borne by ordinary people. He shows that both analytical comprehension and effective policy action require a holistic conceptualisation of the interface between water (or any natural resource), technology and social context. A series of fascinating case studies, including the notorious World Bank-promoted Arun 3 hydro scheme, he makes clear the complexity of the development process, the extent of institutional distortion that external donor policies can induce in recipient societies, and the anti-developmental impacts which the state, unrestrained by the countervailing power of civil society, can have.

Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: A Different Water Journey Contesting Hydropower Policy High Dams for Asia: Neo-Gandhian Maoists vs Nehruvian Stalinists Mahakali Treaty: What Next? An Autopsy of Arun-3 Water Conflict in Southern Riparian Lands Three-legged Water Science for Nepal Troubled Politics of Himalayan Waters Arun-3 Impasse: Is There an Escape from this Blind Alley? When does Falling Water Become a Natural Resource?

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