The paper to looks at the water allocation policy follow in coastal Karnataka. The state water policy accords top … priority to drinking water followed by irrigation, power generation through hydroelectric projects, agro industries, industries … to be affected because of the proposed petrochemical development. The state has pursued and implemented the water policy …

Fresh water resources in Sri Lanka remain a free public good with the State acting as the trustee and custodian of the … resource. Although the country is blessed with a seemingly plentiful supply of water, it encounters severe problems of temporal … and spatial scarcity. Nearly five decades of efforts at formulating a national water policy with a view to introducing a …

The paper tries to look at the legal frameworks in the water sector in India, from the first laws drafted during … and omissions and suggests an examination of and strengthening of the existing water laws and policies to address the … practice where the concerned authorities use organic knowledge of water resource management as seriously as the scientific …

The emerging water crisis calls for a paradigm shift in policies and regulatory regimes the world over, including India …. Arguably, water policies should have been evolved based on an understanding of the social contexts within which they are to be … implemented. Besides, implementation of water policies also requires creating new or fine-tuning of the existing regulatory …

some issues for the effectiveness of groundwater policy. Water policy is influenced by various related policies, such as …

Land and water institutions play a vital role in managing and sustaining land and water resources as well as enhancing …-determinants of farmers’ decisions in land and water conservation, there is little attempt to understand the broad macro …-institutional and organizational issues that influence land and water management decisions. The objective of the study was to assess …

The paper looks at the institutional and policy reforms in the context of sources and uses of water. Although the … reform measures have been specific about surface water, there still is ambiguity on the groundwater situation in India. The … reforms have failed to de-link the conventional linkages between right to land and right to (ground) water. Most policy …