Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. General Overview -- INTRODUCTION -- SCIENCE -- GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS, LAWS AND POLICIES -- BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- 2. Water and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: Major Challenges for the 21st Century -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBAL VERSUS LOCAL WATER SECURITY -- 1. MANAGING LIQUID ASSETS: ISSUES OF WATER AVAILABILITY -- 2. WHO TURNS THE TAPS?: ISSUES IN WATER ACCESS -- 3. NOT ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS IN WELLS: HOUSEHOLD WATER USE -- 4. SURPLUSES AND DEFICIENCIES: WATER-RELATED RISKS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 1 Freshwater-Groundwater, Surface Water -- 3. Freshwater-A Scarce Resource: Its Global Utilization and Sustainable Work Practices in Melbourne, Australia -- INTRODUCTION -- SOURCES OF FRESHWATER, ITS UTILIZATION AND CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN INTERFERENCE -- HARVESTING OF FRESHWATER AND IS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON RIVER DOWN STREAMS -- SOCIAL IMPACT OF DAMMING ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES -- THE CITY OF MELBOURNE, ITS CURRENT WATER SITUATION AND COMPARISON WITH OTHER AUSTRALIAN STATES -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN AUSTRALIA -- WATER: A GLOBAL SCARCE RESOURCE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- 4. State of Water Quality and its Management in India -- WATER RESOURCES OF INDIA -- THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) CESS ACT, 1977 -- SPECIAL INITIATIVES -- CONCLUSION -- STATUTES AND NOTIFICATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE CHAPTER -- 5. Status of Freshwater in Sri Lanka: From a Precious Resource to a Commodity Wasted and Mismanaged -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- 6. Strategic Impact Assessment and Root Causes of Pollution in a Transboundary Drainage Basin in Brazil -- INTRODUCTION -- CAUSAL CHAIN ANALYSIS (CCA) -- CCA APPLIED TO POLLUTION IN PARAÍBA DO SUL RIVER BASIN -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

7. Water Regulation through Two Transitions: The Case of Hungary -- Past pratices -- Water Management on the Danube -- The Tisza River -- Further Concerns -- Hungarian Political Responses -- Evolution of International Agreements -- Challenges Ahead -- CONCLUSION -- ACNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 8. Liquid Waste Management Practices and the Efficient Reuse Strategies with Reference to Melbourne, Australia -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT -- 3. GENERAL METHODS OF LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT -- 4. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN MELBOURNE -- 5. LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN MELBOURNE AND DETAILED DISCUSSION OF SOME PLANTS -- 6. A GENERAL LAYOUT/DESCRIPTION OF THE TREATMENT SYSTEM -- REFERENCES -- 9. Drinking Water Contaminants and Human Health -- INTRODUCTION -- TRACE ELEMENTS -- NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTANTS OF WATER SUPPLIES DUE TO AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES: PESTICIDES AND NITRATES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 10. Projections of Climate Change on Precipitation Intensities, and Implications to Urban Infrastructure -- INTRODUCTION -- ALTERNATIVE BASES OF CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS -- TRENDS IN HISTORICAL PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 11. Climate Change, Water and Poverty in the Morogoro Region, Tanzania -- INTRODUCTION -- PREDICTED CLIMATE CHANGES AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS -- VULNERABILITY, LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY IN THE MOROGORO REGION -- RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2: Governance, Institutions, Laws and Policies -- 12. Water Governance and Water Economics -- Models Pertaining to Water -- Towards National Legislation -- Legal Perspective -- Benefits of Community Participation -- Subsidies and Water Pricing Practices -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

13. Water Basin Regimes in Europe and Institutional Conditions for their Sustainability -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY BASED ON EXTENT AND COHERENCE OF THE REGIME -- CHANGES IN NATIONAL WATER REGIMES IN EUROPE -- EXPLAINING CHANGES TOWARDS MORE INTEGRAL LOCAL WATER BASIN MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSIONS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF EUROPEAN WATER BASIN MANAGEMENT POLICY -- REFERENCES -- 14. Public Participation in Water Management -- 1. THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION -- 2. FOCUS GROUPS AND CITIZENS' JURY -- 3. THE DUTCH CASE: FOCUS GROUPS AND A CITIZENS' JURY IN THE IJSSELMEER BASIN -- 4. AN EVALUATION OF THE METHODS ON THE BASIS OF THE DUTCH EXPERIENCE -- 5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 15. Intergovernmental Challenges of Watershed Management: Strategies for Improving Watershed Governance -- INTRODUCTION -- Intergovernmental Management Strategies -- Using IGM to Build, Manage, or Reconfigure IONs -- Some Factors Influencing IGM Strategies -- Context Matters -- The Human Side of IGM -- Minimizing Transaction Costs -- Maintaining Accountability -- Summary and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 16. Sustainability and Freshwater in the Western United States -- WATER SUSTAINABILITY -- THE ADVOCACY COALITION FRAMEWORK -- OVERVIEW OF WATER DEVELOPMENT -- CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ACHIEVINGSUSTAINABLE WATER POLICY -- WATER REFORMS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 17. Governance in Abundance and Scarcity: The Development of Water Rights in the Great Lakes and Murray-Darling Basins -- ABUNDANCE AND SCARCITY -- A WATER PROPERTY RIGHTS PRIMER -- RIPARIANISM AND THE GREAT LAKES BASIN -- STATE ALLOCATION AND NESTED GOVERNANCE IN THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 18. GAPs in the Dialogue of Governance: Conflicting Ideologies of Development in Turkey -- INTRODUCTION.

Language of the Damming: An All-Purpose Project to Serve All Turkish Identities -- Evolving History of the GAP: 'Moral' Paradigms Supporting Nationalism -- Creating an Environmental Consciousness -- Environmental Arguments Diverted -- The Development of Problems -- The Kurdish Question -- Effects of the GAP on the Local Population -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 19. Integrated Water Resources Management: A Catalyst for Regional Cooperation? -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT SITUATION OF WATER RESOURCES-THE CASE OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE -- 3. THE REQUIRED RESPONSE -- 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 20. Water Scarcity and Water Wars in the Middle East? -- INTRODUCTION -- Water Crisis in the Middle East: The Issues -- Israeli-Palestinian Water Conflict -- Water in the Peace Process -- Conflicts Over the Euphrates and the Tigris -- The Nile Waters -- The Way Ahead -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 3: Best Practices Management -- 21. Community-based Watersheds: A Novel Approach to Sustainable Freshwater Management -- EVOLUTION OF THE WATERSHED CONCEPT -- IN MADHYA PRADESH -- RGMWSM-ORIGIN, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY -- PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM UNDER RGMWSM -- PRESENT STATUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF RGMWSM -- REFERENCES -- 22. Freshwater Management in Industrialized Urban Areas: The Role of Water Conservation -- INTRODUCTION -- The Demand-Supply Gap -- Demand-side Drought Management -- Impacts of Demand-side Drought Management -- A Case Study: Wilmington Metropolitan Area -- Water Conservation-oriented Rates (WCORs) -- Conservation Technology Programs (CTPs) -- Major Barriers to WCOR and CTP -- Water Savings: Reduced Withdrawal -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 4: Human Rights -- 23. Introduction to Human Rights Section -- 24. Water: A Human Right -- Water - A Rare but Basic Need.

Water - a basic need becomes a Millennium Development Goal -- Water - A Basic Beed Becomes a Human Right -- The Human Right to Water and its Relation to Other Human Rights -- Core Obligations Under the Human Right to Water -- Violation of the Human Right to Water -- The Human Right to Water as a Framework for Privatization -- The Human Right to Water as Guidance for Corporate Behaviour -- Satisfaction of Access to Water and Sanitation as a Basic Need -- Implementation of the Human Right to Water -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 25. Financing the Human Right to Water as a Millennium Development Goal -- Water - Issue for Public Funding -- Defining Development Standards as a Precondition for Investment -- The Problem of Foreign Direct Investment / Private Sector Participation -- Risks in Attracting PPP and FDI by Deregulation -- Tradeable Water Services -- Financing the Human Right to Water is a Question of Cross Subsidizing -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Index.