"Informing Water Policies In South Asia | Asian Studies

This book analyzes water policies in South Asia from the perspective of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). It seeks to address the problems of water scarcity conflict and pollution resulting from the gross mismanagement and over-exploitation of this finite resource. Highlighting the need for IWRM in mitigating abuse and ensuring sustainable use it discusses issues relating to groundwater management; inter-state water conflicts; peri-urban water use; local traditional water management practices; coordination between water users and uses; and water integration at the grassroots level. With case studies from India Bangladesh Pakistan and Nepal the innovative painstaking and transnational researches presented in the volume deal with questions of equity gender sustainability and democratic governance in water policy interventions. It will interest researchers and students of development studies environmental studies natural resource management water governance and public administration as also water sector professionals policymakers civil society activists and governmental and nongovernmental organizations. |Informing Water Policies in South Asia | Asian Studies