The surge of Residential Fresh Water Demand (RFWD) has raised great concern for China’s water supply and understanding … the driving forces of RFWD is critical to maintain a sufficient water supply. Drawing on the panel dataset from 31 Chinese … as local social norms regarding hygiene habits and water resource use. Our estimation results indicate that the rapid …

Many African countries have seen the passing of new water laws. Reflecting international discourses on IWRM, they put … the use, management and value of water in an eco-systemic perspective, while they reflect the Dublin principles with … water policies have to be understood as contextually embedded. Negotiation processes around water reforms are historically …

For many years, water resources management in Vietnam was concentrated on activities ensuring the available freshwater … for agricultural production, including flood control. With the increase of water demands and the emergence of new water … economic transition process, the water sector has undergone a series of reforms, including various attempts to integrate …

This paper reviews the literature on the characteristics of the post-Independence water resources policy process in … have become increasingly forceful. It will be shown that the dynamics of the water resources policy process has been … studied to a very limited extent, compared to, for example, the study of (economic) impacts of policies and local-level water …

understanding of the integration of these in shaping and reshaping water management. This paper contributes to this understanding by … multifaceted governance arrangement influencing water management. The paper reveals that in such regime, policies are never … implemented, but integrated through the negotiation of diverse other policies and socio-cultural settings in shaping water …

This paper uses the growing volume of scholarly work on "water and politics" to conceptually and methodologically frame … an approach to the social analysis of water resources management. This paper sets out the thrust and focus of such a … "political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …

. It comprises a large-scale irrigation system which conveys water from the river Amudarya to agricultural land cropped … mainly with cotton, wheat, and rice. Khorezm's water resources are vulnerable because they depend on upstream developments … and are indispensable for rural livelihoods and state budgets. Since water scarcity is expected to increase in the future …

This paper attempts to give a spatial and temporal overview of water management in India. It traces how people and the … successive regimes made choices across space and time from a wide range of water control and distribution technologies. The paper … divides the water management in India into four periods: (i) the traditional system of water management before colonial times …