Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- About the contributors -- Foreword -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking development paradigms for the water sector -- Introduction -- Sustainable development -- Environmental sustainability of water projects -- Case study of Mexico -- Conclusions -- References -- 3. Global and local agendas in water management: From vision to action -- Introduction -- Global-local agendas in water management: Theory and practice -- Research questions -- Recommended actions: New regionalism for water management in the Middle East -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Balancing between the eternal yesterday and the eternal tomorrow: Economic globalization, water and equity -- Introduction -- The different aspects of globalization -- Economic globalization and water -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- 5. Managing rain for the future -- Introduction -- Water and food security: Sorting out the facts -- Making more food with the same rainfall -- Win-win solutions based on integrated rain management -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6. Recycling and reuse of 'derivative water' under conditions of scarcity and competition -- Introduction -- Bridging the scarcity divide: Recycling secondary or 'derivative' water -- Management and policy options for effluent irrigation -- Case descriptions of planned and unplanned reuse -- Conclusions: Next generation issues for derivative water use -- Notes -- References -- 7. Rethinking groundwater management -- Introduction -- Detrimental impacts of groundwater non-management -- A shift in groundwater management approaches: Towards providing incentives for more sustainable use -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.

8. Water rights and their management: A comparative country study and its implication for China -- Introduction -- Legal and economic aspects of property rights -- Water resources as common pool resources -- Typical water rights assignments and their characteristics -- Water rights reform in china: Theoretical and practical explorations towards efficient water resources management -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 9. The present and future of transboundary water management -- Introduction -- The transboundary freshwater dispute database -- International institutions and indicators of conflict -- Baskets of benefits4 -- Why might the future look nothing like the past? -- Conclusion: What types of policy recommendations can one make? -- Notes -- References -- 10. Forgetting political boundaries in identifying water development potentials in the basin-wide approach: The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna issues -- Introduction -- Regional water-based development context -- Regional water-resource utilization issues -- Regional water-based development potentials -- Broad-based conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- 11. Let's pump money into the water sector! -- Introduction -- Today's four major challenges -- Suggested actions to improve the situation -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 12. Conclusion: The way forward -- Entry point to sustainable water management -- Change of water paradigm is required -- Sharing common water resources: Paradigm shifts in the light of globalization -- The future water manager -- Sustainable development: From rhetoric to action -- Rain is water: Broadening the resource base -- Innovative management options -- Invisible water resources: The need for new action -- Water rights and user involvement -- Capacity building and knowledge shifts towards integrating water management.

The inter-generation challenge -- Index.