Vol. 10 No. 1 (2003)

Published: 2003-01-10

Editorial

Water, Human Rights and Governance: Issues, Debates and Perspectives

Marcus Moench, Ajaya Dixit, Elisabeth Caspari

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The Starting Point

Ethical Considerations in Water Management Systems

M. Ramon Llamas

13-27
Human Rights, Ethics and Governance the Work of the World Humanity Action Trust

Jack Jeffery

29-36
Which Rights are Right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values

Rajendra Pradhan, Ruth Meinzen-Dick

37-61
Water, Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

Franz Von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann

63-76
Transnational Led Privatisation and the New Regime for the Global Governance of Water

Shiney Varghese

77-105
Geopolitics of Water: From ‘Security’ to Sustainability

Eva Saroch

107-114

Human Rights to Water-Thirst and Sanitation

The Human Right to Water

Peter H. Gleick

117-125
A Human Rights Approach to Development: Some Practical Implications for Water Aid’s Work

Julia Hausermann

127-149

Diverse Perspectives

Water and Rights: Some Partial Perspectives

Ramaswamy R. IIyer

153-163
Searching for Balance: Water Rights, Human Rights and Water Ethics

Marcus Moench

165-183
Water, Human Rights and Governance in the Middle East: An Essay Illustrated by Conflicts over Water Between Israelis and Palestinians

David B. Brooks

185-195
Water, Human Rights, and Economic Instruments the Islamic Perspective

Naser I. Faruqui

197-214
Water in Hinduism: Continuities and Disjunctures Between Scriptural Canons and Local Traditions in Nepal

Sudhindra Sharma

215-247

Justice Denied

People, Power and Rivers: Experiences from the Damodar River, India

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

251-267
Counter Narrative of Irrigation Management: The Case of Pakistan

Mushtaq Gadi

269-276
Life Within the Kosi Embankments

Dinesh Kumar Mishra

277-301
Development Implications of Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh

Sharmeen Murshid

303-311
Ravaged Ecology, Cruel Displacement, Impoverished Livelihoods

Muhammad Naumen

313-318

Governance Examples

Decentralisation for Development

Bihari Krishna Shrestha

321-326
Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS): A Mode of Water Governance

Prachanda Pradhan

327-335
The Efficacy of User Committees in the Sustainable Management of Micro-Drinking Water Systems

P. Durgaprasad, S. Srinivasan

337-348
Water Resources in Nigeria: Rights, Accesibility, Allocation and Management

Winters O. Negbenebor

349-360
The Impact of Institutional Reforms in Water Management on the Poor in Pakistan

Saadia Iqbal

361-367
Community Management of Water: the Case of Umbeluzi Basin, Mozambique

Eduardo Chilundo, Joel Das Neves Tembe

369-378
Crafting a Common Patrimony out of the Trans-Appropriative Nature of Water Resources

Emmanuel Bon

379-390
The Water Resources of an Island State (Jamaica): Issues Related: to Allocation, Accessibility, Management and Human Rights

Belal Ahmed

391-408
Irrigation Projects and the Egyptian Bedouin

Nabil M. El-Khodari

409-419