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“This is an unusual, intriguing and insightful book…. [Water] sometimes reads like a detective yarn, where wily old Poirot attempts to unravel the complex chains of events, actions (inactions sometimes) that have led to the present failure of hydrological institution building in India…. This is a useful book, and indeed and important one.” - Progress in Development Studies
“This book will be of interest to the general reader as also to students and academics on the fields of water resources, hydrology, environmental studies and public administration. It will also attract the attention of policy makers and the media.” - CAB Abstracts
Water resources are an issue of ever increasing importance worldwide given rising populations and increasing environmental degradation. Water has also become a divisive issue, both within ...
Chapter 8: Water and Rights: Some Partial Perspectives
Water and Rights: Some Partial Perspectives
Questions of rights relating to, or in the context of, water resources arise in diverse ways and from different perspectives. Most of these are partial perspectives. This chapter will set these forth briefly in a sequence that has no particular significance, and then postulate, or at any rate raise the ...
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