Water Resources Development and Management

Policies, Performance and Prospects

By: Chennat Gopalakrishnan (Editor), Cecilia Tortajada (Editor), Asit K. Biswas (Editor)

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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)

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Preface
Water Allocation and Management in Hawaii: A Case of Institutional Entropy
Introduction	p. 1
Institutions: An Overview	p. 1
Institutional Entropy	p. 3
Hawaii's Water Institutions: An Evolutionary Perspective	p. 4
Performance of Hawaii's Water Institutions: A Case Study	p. 12
Hawaii's Water Institutions: A Case of Institutional Entropy	p. 18
Future Directions	p. 19
References	p. 21
Institutions for Resources Management: A Case Study from Sri Lanka
Introduction	p. 24
Public and Private Institutions	p. 25
Analysis of a Sri Lankan Institution	p. 29
Concluding Remarks	p. 44
References	p. 45
Water Institutions in India: Structure, Performance, and Change
Introduction	p. 47
Objectives and Scope	p. 48
Analytical Framework	p. 48
Water Institutional Environment: An Overview	p. 52
Water Institutional Structure: A Macro Perspective	p. 54
Water Institutional Structure: Micro Perspective	p. 65
Evaluating the Performance of Water Institutions	p. 69
Institutional Change: Nature, Extent, and Causes	p. 72
Concluding Remarks	p. 77
References	p. 78
Uphill Flow of Reform in China's Irrigation Districts
Introduction	p. 81
Locating the Irrigation Districts in Contemporary China	p. 81
Recent History and the Disenabling Environment	p. 84
Reform Initiatives	p. 89
Interpretation and Meanings	p. 95
Acknowledgements	p. 96
References	p. 96
Institutions for Water Management in Mexico
Introduction	p. 99
River Basin Commissions, 1946-1986	p. 100
Factors which influenced the performance of the river basin commissions	p. 118
Regional approach for water policies and institutions	p. 122
Concluding Remarks	p. 125
Acknowledgements	p. 127
References	p. 127
Water Institutions in the Middle East
Introduction	p. 131
The Beginnings of Water Institutions	p. 131
Islam and Water	p. 133
Modern Water Institutions	p. 135
National Case Studies	p. 136
Overall Assessment of Water Institutions in the Middle East	p. 150
References	p. 152
Institutions in South African International River Basins
Introduction	p. 154
The Southern African Hydropolitical Complex	p. 154
History of Development in the South African Water Sector	p. 157
An Assessment of Post-Apartheid Institutional Development	p. 164
Concluding Remarks	p. 168
References	p. 168
Property Rights, Water Rights and the Changing Scene in Western Water
Introduction	p. 175
The Definition and Evolution of Property Rights	p. 175
"Optimising" the Property Rights System	p. 176
The Evolution of Western U.S. Water Rights	p. 178
The Need for Change in Western U.S. Water Administration	p. 180
Specific Steps	p. 182
References	p. 184
Finding a Modern Role for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine in the American West
Introduction	p. 187
The Prior Appropriation Doctrine	p. 188
Flaws in Principle and in Application	p. 189
A Modern Role for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine	p. 196
Concluding Remarks	p. 198
References	p. 198
Index	p. 201
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