Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries: Rationale, Contents and Key Messages -- 2 Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia -- 3 Community Priorities for Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions, Principles and Programmes -- 4 Dispossession at the Interface of Community-based Water Law and Permit Systems -- 5 Issues in Reforming Informal Water Economies of Low-income Countries: Examples from India and Elsewhere -- 6 Legal Pluralism and the Politics of Inclusion: Recognition and Contestation of Local Water Rights in the Andes -- 7 Water Rights and Rules, and Management in Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea, Yemen and Pakistan -- 8 Local Institutions for Wetland Management in Ethiopia: Sustainability and State Intervention -- 9 Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia -- 10 Kenya's New Water Law: an Analysis of the Implications of Kenya's Water Act, 2002, for the Rural Poor -- 11 Coping with History and Hydrology: How Kenya's Settlement and Land Tenure Patterns Shape Contemporary Water Rights and Gender Relations in Water -- 12 Irrigation Management and Poverty Dynamics: Case Study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya -- 13 If Government Failed, how are we to Succeed? The Importance of History and Context in Present-day Irrigation Reform in Malawi -- 14 A Legal-Infrastructural Framework for Catchment Apportionment -- 15 Intersections of Law, Human Rights and Water Management in Zimbabwe: Implications for Rural Livelihoods -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.