Author: California. Department of Water Resources. Division of Resources PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delta Region (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Assumptions as to Water Rights
Author: California. Department of Water Resources. Division of Resources PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delta Region (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Liquid Relations
Author: Dik RothPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813537843
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two key assumptions: (1) water is a commodity that can be bought and sold and (2) “states,” or other centralized entities, should control access to water. Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws, distribution, and irrigation in regions around the world, including the United States, Nepal, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, India, and South Africa. In each case, problems are shown to be both ecological and human-made. The essays also consider the ways that gender, ethnicity, and class differences influence water rights and control. In the concluding chapter, the editors draw on the essays’ findings to offer an alternative approach to water rights and water governance issues. By showing how issues like water scarcity and competition are embedded in specific resource use and management histories, this volume highlights the need for analyses and solutions that are context-specific rather than universal.
Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries
Author: Barbara C. P. KoppenPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845933273
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities. This book shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be more able to reach their goals.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2376
Book Description
Federal-State Water Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Central Valley Project Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Animas-La Plata Project (CO,NM)
Author: Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Water Rights Acquisition, Lahontan Valley Wetlands, Churchill County
Author: Transboundary Water Resources Management
Author: Jacques GanoulisPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527636668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practical examples of effective management of transboundary water resources. Its multidisciplinary approach combines hydrology and environmental science with economic and political approaches, in line with new UNESCO and EU recommendations, which have been formulated and implemented with the active involvement of all three editors. By providing a theoretical framework as well as abundant case studies from southern Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, this handbook provides hydrologists, geologists, engineers and decision-makers with all the knowledge they need for their daily work.