Water first : issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia

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Water first : issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia

edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J.Wasson

Sage Publications, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both the nations and the communities of the South Asian region, particularly India, where control over water has always been a symbol of social and political power. It explores the adequacy of the competing and/or complementary explanations for these daunting challenges of envisioning water management in one of the most densely populated parts of the world with a long history of water control. Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities in South Asia brings together cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water. Through a rich offering of case studies and local examples, it elaborates on current water management practices, the passions and complexities that these practices have inspired, and the policies that have impacted the patterns of water use. The book shall hold great interest for policy makers, social scientists, students, research bodies and organizations, and national and international development and donor agencies.

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Foreword - Peter P Mollinga Introduction: Placing Water First - Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt I. THE REGIONAL POLITICS OF WATER IN SOUTH ASIA National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene - Ramaswamy R. Iyer The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers - Avijit Gupta The Politics of Water in Colonial India: The Emergence of Control - David Hardiman The Regional Politics of Water Sharing: Contemporary Issues in South Asia - Douglas Hill Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers: Implications for South Asia - Binayak Ray River-Linking and its Discontents: The Final Plunge for Supply-side Hydrology in India - Rohan D'Souza II. REGIONAL ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND APPROACHES Water Quality and Economic Growth in India - Robert J. Wasson When a Public Health Story Goes Sour: Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water in Bangladesh - Bruce Caldwell Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water: Social Determinants of an Environmental Crisis in India - Atanu Sarkar Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia: The Challenge of Community-managed Alternatives - Sara Ahmed Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons from Four Indian States - Vishal Narain and Saurabh Chugh Top-down or Bottom-up?: Negotiating Water Management at the Local Level in South Asia - Saravanan V.S Watershed Development Programmes and Rural Development: A Review of Indian Policies - Sucharita Sen III. INTERPRETING COMMUNITY ROLES AND INITIATIVES Beyond 'Dispositif' and 'De-politicization': Spaces of Civil Society in Water Conservation in Rural Rajasthan - Saurabh Gupta and Subir Sinha Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism: The Movement Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam - Judy Whitehead Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC - Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Endogenous Water Resource Management in North-East Bangladesh: Lessons from the Haor Basin - Jennifer Duyne Barenstein The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation) - Annie Bolitho Index

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