Acknowledgements; Contributor Biographies; Introduction;; I: Water Law Policy and Institutional Reforms in India; 1. Water and Questions of Law: An Overview; 2. Water law–Evolving Regulatory Framework; 3. Discourses in Water and Water Reform in Western India; 4. The Slow Road to the Private–A Case Study of Neoliberal Water Reforms in Chennai;; II: Ongoing Irrigation and Ground Water Reforms in India; 5. Canal Irrigation Water User Associations and Law in India–Emerging Trends in Rights Based Perspective; 6. Customary Rights and their Relevance in Modern Tank Management: Select Cases in Tamil Nadu; 7. Ground Water–Legal Aspects of the Plachimada Dispute;; III: Perspectives on Privatisation; 8. Tirupur Water Supply and Sanitation Project–A Revolution in Water Resource Management?; 9. The World Bank’s Influence on Water Privatisation in Argentina: The Experience of the city of Buenos Aires; 10. Linkages between Access to Water and Water Scarcity with International Investment Law and the WTO Regime; 11. More Drops for Hyderabad City Less Crops for Farmers: Water Institutions and Reallocation in Andhra Pradesh;; IV: Environment and Human Rights; 12. Balancing Development and Environmental Conservation and Protection of the Water Resource Base: The ‘Greening’ of Water Laws; 13. The Right to Water as a Human Right or a Bird’s Right–Does Co-Operative Governance Offer a Way Out of a Conflict of Interests and Legal Complexity?; 14. South Africa’s Water Law and Policy Framework: Implications for the Right to Water; 15. Respect Protect Fulfill: The Implementation of the Human Right to Water in South Africa;; V: Comparative Perspectives on Reforms; 16. Learning from Water Law Reforms in Australia; 17. Law and ‘Development’ Discourses about Water: Understanding Agency in Regime Changes; 18. Marginal Remarks Regarding Water Policy Regimes; Governance Rights Justice and Development: An Epilogue;; Bibliography
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