The Punjab province of Pakistan, heavily dependent on river waters, is vulnerable to both excessive monsoon floods and dry drought years. Climate Change Action Plans for Water Security provide the hallmark for developmental process in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. These are based on the...

The problem that we address in this paper stems from the trend to delegation in the water management field. It refers to the municipality's negotiating disadvantage in the face of cartelized water management firms that makes delegation, once undertaken, virtually irreversible. We show why the...