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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, c2008.Description: l, 435 p. : ill ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780761936251 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.9100954 WAT 23 007071
LOC classification:
  • HD1698.S75 W37 2008
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Contents:
Machine derived contents note: Contents List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction : Placing Water First by Kuntala Lahiri ¿Dutt Section I The Regional Politics of Water in South Asia 1. National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene Ramaswamy R.Iyer Pakistan India Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh A Resume of Convergences and Divergences Conclusion 2. The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers Avijit Gupta Rivers, Form and Function River Management: Objectives and Procedure Monsoon Rivers in Asia: Distribution and Characteristics Managing Monsoon Rivers Concluding Remarks 3. The Politics of Water in Colonial India: The Emergence of Control David Hardiman Introduction Early Interventions Canal Networks From Rainfed to Irrigated Farming 4. The Regional Politics of Water Sharing: Contemporary Issues in South Asia Douglas Hill Political Economy of Water in South Asia Disputes over Water Future Outlook 5. Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers: Implications for South Asia Binayak Ray Regulating Rivers in a Volatile Region The 1997 UNGA Convention India¿s Water-Sharing Treaties China: A Key Player on Riparian Water Policy Under China¿s Shadow 6. River-Linking and its Discontents : The Final Plunge for Supply ¿Side Hydrology in India Rohan D¿Souza Roots of River-Linking Plans History and Hydraulic Practice The Collapse of Supply-Side Hydrology The Nature of Flooding and Drainage The Global Water Crisis and the Rise of Demand Management Towards a New Approach Section II Regional Issues , Challenges and Approaches 7. Water Quality and Economic Growth in India R.J.Wasson The EKC and Water Quality India¿s Economic Development The Quality of River Water in India( BOD and Fecal Coloforms) Institutional Developments Summary and Conclusions 8. When a Public Health Story Goes Sour: Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water in Bangladesh Bruce Caldwell Water, Water, Everywhere , Nor Any Drop to Drink Tubewells: The Key to Safe Water Arsenic: A Cruel Blow The Health and Social Research Project The Risks and Benefits of Arsenic Intervention Intervention Study 9. Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water : Social Determinants of an Environment Crisis in India Atanu Sarkar Methods Results Processes Determining Manifestations 10. Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia: The Challenge of Community ¿Managed Alternatives Sara Ahmed Gender in Water Management Understanding Gender in IWRM Gender and Water in South Asia: An Overview Mainstreaming Gender in Livelihoods: Water for Agriculture Irrigation and Gender Gender and Domestic Water Supply Gender and Sanitation ¿ Still Cinderella¿s Slipper? Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM: Challenges Now 11. Institutions For Integrated Water Resources Management : Lessons From Four Indian States Vishal Narain and Saurabh Chugh Why IWRM? Approaches to IWRM Irrigation Reforms Reforms in Drinking Water Supply Integration in Watershed Management 12. Top-down or Bottom-up? Water Management at the Local Level in South Asia. Saravanan V.S Constitutional Background Water Policies: Shaping and Reshaping Landscapes Water Legislation Water Administration: Multiple and Complex Top-down or Bottom-up? 13. Watershed Development Programmes and Rural Development : A Review of Indian Policies Sucharita Sen A Review of Policies for Land Resource Management Evolution of Watershed Policy in India Assessing the Watershed Programmes Future Directions and Policy Implications Section III Interpreting Community Roles and Initiatives 14. Beyond ¿Dispositif¿ and ¿De-politicization¿ : Spaces of Civil Society in Water Conservation in Rural Rajasthan Saurabh Gupta and Subir Sinha The Power of International Development: Determining, Structuring , or Just an Element in the Mix? The Activist NGO as Development Agent ¿Room for Manoeuver at the Bottom¿ or ¿Change from Below¿ The Power of Grassroots and Networks for Change TBS and the Space Outside the State Autonomy, Civil Society and the Colonizing /​ De-politicizing Effects of the Development ¿Dispositif¿ 15. Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism : The Movement Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam Judy Whitehead Narmada Bachao Andolan in Context From Social Contradictions to International Environmentalism Transnational Environmentalism and the Politics of Representation The Politics of Attrition, 1996¿ 2001 Conclusions 16. Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt The ¿Public¿ Hearing on DVC Inventing the River Intervention for Water Control Replicating the State: The Boro Bandhs Resistance to DVC 17. Endogenous Water Resource Management in North ¿ East Bangladesh: Lessons from the Haor Basin Jennifer Duyne Barenstein Water Resource Management by Communities The Conditions for Participation The Haor Basin Sonar Haor The Provision and Maintenance of Hydraulic Infrastructure Village Funds Informal Rules, Values and Norms 18. Everyday Waterscapes: Perception and Negotiation of Water Locales in Varanasi Stephen Lemcke Everyday in Varanasi The Regionalization of Water Locales The Water Meanings of Water Locales: Perceived and Imagined Waterscapes Water Locales as Sources of Conflict 19. The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation) Annie Bolitho Paying Respect to opposition The Sankat Mochan Foundation Our Boat, Our River? Holy water Rationalizing Rivers Naming Realties Reasoning with the River Time and the River About the Editors and Contributors Index.
Summary: Outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both nations and 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction : Placing Water First by Kuntala Lahiri ¿Dutt
Section I
The Regional Politics of Water in South Asia
1. National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene
Ramaswamy R.Iyer
Pakistan
India
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh
A Resume of Convergences and Divergences
Conclusion
2. The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers
Avijit Gupta
Rivers, Form and Function
River Management: Objectives and Procedure
Monsoon Rivers in Asia: Distribution and Characteristics
Managing Monsoon Rivers
Concluding Remarks
3. The Politics of Water in Colonial India: The Emergence of Control
David Hardiman
Introduction
Early Interventions
Canal Networks
From Rainfed to Irrigated Farming
4. The Regional Politics of Water Sharing: Contemporary Issues in South Asia
Douglas Hill
Political Economy of Water in South Asia
Disputes over Water
Future Outlook
5. Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers: Implications for South Asia
Binayak Ray
Regulating Rivers in a Volatile Region
The 1997 UNGA Convention
India¿s Water-Sharing Treaties
China: A Key Player on Riparian Water Policy
Under China¿s Shadow
6. River-Linking and its Discontents : The Final Plunge for Supply ¿Side Hydrology in India
Rohan D¿Souza
Roots of River-Linking Plans
History and Hydraulic Practice
The Collapse of Supply-Side Hydrology
The Nature of Flooding and Drainage
The Global Water Crisis and the Rise of Demand Management
Towards a New Approach
Section II
Regional Issues , Challenges and Approaches
7. Water Quality and Economic Growth in India
R.J.Wasson
The EKC and Water Quality
India¿s Economic Development
The Quality of River Water in India( BOD and Fecal Coloforms)
Institutional Developments
Summary and Conclusions
8. When a Public Health Story Goes Sour: Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water in Bangladesh
Bruce Caldwell
Water, Water, Everywhere , Nor Any Drop to Drink
Tubewells: The Key to Safe Water
Arsenic: A Cruel Blow
The Health and Social Research Project
The Risks and Benefits of Arsenic Intervention
Intervention Study
9. Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water : Social Determinants of an Environment Crisis in India
Atanu Sarkar
Methods
Results
Processes Determining Manifestations
10. Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia: The Challenge of Community ¿Managed Alternatives
Sara Ahmed
Gender in Water Management
Understanding Gender in IWRM
Gender and Water in South Asia: An Overview
Mainstreaming Gender in Livelihoods: Water for Agriculture
Irrigation and Gender
Gender and Domestic Water Supply
Gender and Sanitation ¿ Still Cinderella¿s Slipper?
Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM: Challenges Now
11. Institutions For Integrated Water Resources Management : Lessons From Four Indian States
Vishal Narain and Saurabh Chugh
Why IWRM?
Approaches to IWRM
Irrigation Reforms
Reforms in Drinking Water Supply
Integration in Watershed Management
12. Top-down or Bottom-up? Water Management at the Local Level in South Asia.
Saravanan V.S
Constitutional Background
Water Policies: Shaping and Reshaping Landscapes
Water Legislation
Water Administration: Multiple and Complex
Top-down or Bottom-up?
13. Watershed Development Programmes and Rural Development : A Review of Indian Policies
Sucharita Sen
A Review of Policies for Land Resource Management
Evolution of Watershed Policy in India
Assessing the Watershed Programmes
Future Directions and Policy Implications
Section III
Interpreting Community Roles and Initiatives
14. Beyond ¿Dispositif¿ and ¿De-politicization¿ : Spaces of Civil Society in Water Conservation in Rural Rajasthan
Saurabh Gupta and Subir Sinha
The Power of International Development: Determining, Structuring , or Just an Element in the Mix?
The Activist NGO as Development Agent
¿Room for Manoeuver at the Bottom¿ or ¿Change from Below¿
The Power of Grassroots and Networks for Change
TBS and the Space Outside the State
Autonomy, Civil Society and the Colonizing /​ De-politicizing Effects of the Development ¿Dispositif¿
15. Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism : The Movement Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam
Judy Whitehead
Narmada Bachao Andolan in Context
From Social Contradictions to International Environmentalism
Transnational Environmentalism and the Politics of Representation
The Politics of Attrition, 1996¿ 2001
Conclusions
16. Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
The ¿Public¿ Hearing on DVC
Inventing the River
Intervention for Water Control
Replicating the State: The Boro Bandhs
Resistance to DVC
17. Endogenous Water Resource Management in North ¿ East Bangladesh: Lessons from the Haor Basin
Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Water Resource Management by Communities
The Conditions for Participation
The Haor Basin
Sonar Haor
The Provision and Maintenance of Hydraulic Infrastructure
Village Funds
Informal Rules, Values and Norms
18. Everyday Waterscapes: Perception and Negotiation of Water Locales in Varanasi
Stephen Lemcke
Everyday in Varanasi
The Regionalization of Water Locales
The Water Meanings of Water Locales: Perceived and Imagined Waterscapes
Water Locales as Sources of Conflict
19. The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation)
Annie Bolitho
Paying Respect to opposition
The Sankat Mochan Foundation
Our Boat, Our River?
Holy water
Rationalizing Rivers
Naming Realties
Reasoning with the River
Time and the River
About the Editors and Contributors
Index.

Outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both nations and 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.

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