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1 Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria; Kadushkin, A.; Ali, T. 2007. Water institutional reforms and the MDGs: Towards an evaluation framework. Irrigation and Drainage, 56:227-236.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G000 SAL Record No: H039896)
2 Merrey, D. J.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Mollinga, P. P.; Karar, E.; Huppert, W.; Rees, J.; Vera, J.; Wegerich, K.; van der Zaag, P. 2007. Policy and institutional reform: the art of the possible. In Molden, David (Ed.). Water for food, water for life: a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London, UK: Earthscan; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.193-231.
Water resource management ; Policy ; Institutional reform ; River basins ; Organizations ; Governance ; Irrigation water ; Farmers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 630.7 G000 IWM Record No: H040198)
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3 Shah, Tushaar; Giordano, Mark; Wang, Jinxia. 2007. Irrigation institutions in a dynamic economy: What is China doing differently from India? In Ragone, S. (Ed.). The Global Importance of Groundwater in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability, Alicante, Spain, 24-27 January 2006. Westerville, OH, USA: National Groundwater Association. pp.177-187.
Irrigation programs ; Groundwater irrigation ; Surface water ; Water demand ; Energy ; Electricity ; Water costs ; User charges ; Tube wells ; Pumping ; Groundwater depletion ; Institutional reform ; Water law / India / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.9104 G000 RAG Record No: H040487)
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4 Molle, Francois; Hoanh, Chu Thai. 2008. Implementing integrated river basin management: lessons from the Red River Basin, Vietnam. Working paper. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Program on Water Environment and Resilience (M-POWER); Montpellier Cedex, France: Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 51p.
River basin management ; Governance ; Legal aspects ; Institutional reform ; Institutions ; Development projects ; Participatory management / Vietnam / Red River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G784 MOL Record No: H041494)
5 Ioris, A. A. R. 2008. Water institutional reforms in Scotland: contested objectives and hidden disputes. Water Alternatives, 1(2):253-270.
Institutional reform ; Water policy ; Water management ; Participatory management ; Social participation ; Stakeholders ; Water use ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects / UK / Scotland
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041571)
6 Devi, M. G.; Samad, Madar. 2008. Wastewater treatment and reuse: an institutional analysis for Hyderabad, India. In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.1. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Office. pp.513-523.
River basins ; Water pollution ; Sewage ; Effluents ; Pollution control ; Legislation ; Waste management ; Water quality ; Guidelines ; Wastewater irrigation ; Health hazards ; Rice ; Grasses ; Institutional reform ; Case studies / India / Hyderabad / Musi River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 KUM Record No: H041888)
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7 Bassi, Nitin. 2008. Are sector reforms working?: assessing implementation of irrigation management act of Madhya Pradesh. In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.2. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Office. pp.524-540.
Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Water user associations ; Farmers organizations ; Institutional reform ; Irrigation programs ; Legislation / India / Madhya Pradesh / Satak Irrigation Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 KUM Record No: H041891)
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8 Babu, S. C.; Djalalov, S. (Eds.) 2006. Policy reforms and agriculture development in Central Asia. New York, NY, USA: Springer. 494p. (Natural Resource Management and Policy)
Agricultural policy ; Agricultural development ; Agrarian reform ; Farms ; Globalization ; Water resource management ; Farmers attitudes ; Privatization ; Land reform ; Livestock ; Private sector ; Institutional reform ; Irrigation systems ; Water user associations ; Food security ; Poverty / Central Asia / Kazakhstan / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan / Aral Sea
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G770 BAB Record No: H042060)
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9 Molle, Francois; Hoanh, Chu Thai. 2009. Implementing integrated river basin management: lessons from the Red River Basin, Vietnam. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 25p. (IWMI Research Report 131) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.131]
River basin management ; Water resource management ; Legal aspects ; Water law ; Water policy ; Institutional reform ; Organizational change ; Institutions ; Governance ; Development projects ; Participatory management / Vietnam / Red River Basin / Cau River / Nhue River / Day River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G784 MOL Record No: H042337)
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The report focuses on the establishment of the Red River Basin Organization (RRBO) in Vietnam, but expands its analysis to the wider transformations of the water sector that impinge on the formation and effectiveness of this organization. A few reflections on the policy process are drawn from this analysis, albeit in a tentative form given the relatively limited period of time considered here. The report shows that the promotion of IWRM icons such as RBOs by donors has been quite disconnected from the existing institutional framework. However, the establishment of RBOs might eventually strengthen a better separation of operation and regulation roles. Institutional change is shown to result from the interaction between endogenous processes and external pressures, in ways that are barely predictable.
10 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2009. Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India Series 5. Proceedings of the Second National Workshop on Strategic Issues in Indian Irrigation, New Delhi, India, 8-9 April 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 359p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2010.202]
Irrigation management ; Institutional reform ; Surface irrigation ; River basin management ; Water transfer ; Investment ; Irrigation programs ; Policy ; Water user associations ; Groundwater management ; Groundwater recharge ; Water supply ; Drinking water ; Watershed management ; Crops / India / Tamil Nadu / Rajasthan
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.9162 G635 INT Record No: H042682)
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Research in this book is part of the project no. 48, “Strategic Analyses of India’s National River-Linking Project (NRLP)” of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF).
11 Venkatachalam, L. 2008. Market-based instruments for water allocation in India: issues and the way forward. In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.1. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Office. pp.498-512.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 KUM Record No: H042916)
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Institutions do matter in managing water scarcity. Institutional reforms in water sector in recent years have tried to replace the existing ‘command-and-control approach’ with more innovative and comprehensive marketbased approach. Based on a comprehensive literature review, this paper highlights various issues involved in marketbased institutional reforms in the water sector in various countries. This paper finds that even though there are some problems, the market-based institutional reforms are capable of generating relatively higher benefits through efficient, equitable and sustainable water allocation mechanisms. This paper also provides policy suggestions on introducing market-based instruments formally in the water sector in the Indian context.
12 Rout, S. 2008. Institutional and policy reforms in water sector in India: review of issues, concepts and trends. In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.2. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Office. pp.665-678.
Water governance ; Farmer participation ; Institutional reform ; Water rights ; Property rights ; Water policy / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G635 KUM Record No: H042926)
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The paper looks at the institutional and policy reforms in the context of sources and uses of water. Although the reform measures have been specific about surface water, there still is ambiguity on the groundwater situation in India. The reforms have failed to de-link the conventional linkages between right to land and right to (ground) water. Most policy reforms have been in response to the emerging crisis of water allocation, use and management. The current perspective towards water has been holistic in nature in contrast to the excessive importance to technoengineering approach that characterized the earlier period of water sector. Further, there have been changes acknowledging the rights of farmers, women and end-users as stakeholders in the whole process of water governance. In this regards, the policy changes have proceeded hand in hand with other reforms in decentralized governance, providing greater emphasis on user participation in decision making concerning water governance.
13 Wegerich, K. 2005. What happens in a merger?: experiences of the State Department
for Water Resources in Khorezm, Uzbekistan. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 30:455-462.
for Water Resources in Khorezm, Uzbekistan. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 30:455-462.
Water resource management ; Water distribution ; Decision making ; Institutions ; Institutional reform ; Organizational change / Uzbekistan / Khorezm Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043131)
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The paper focuses on the organisational problems of the state Department of Water Resources at the district level in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan. The study opens the organisational 'black box' and looks inside the organisational structure of the Department of Water Resources. The analysis goes beyond the current studies and reports focusing on the duties of the organisation, by analysing the logistical capabilities and the constraining factors due to the organisational structure after the merger in 1997 between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Melioration and Water Management. The paper utilises organisational theory approaches to power for analysing the state Department of Water Resources. Even though the merger between the two Ministries was supposed to create two equally important departments within one Ministry, the analysis shows that the Department of Water Resources got submerged into the organisation. The water department lost its old organisational objective of distributing water 'equitably' to agricultural water users. The dominant objective of the whole organisation became the old objective of the agricultural department, namely fulfilling the target of the state order. In addition, the ability of the water resource department to manage and to control water resources was reduced during the merger. The merger reduced not only the resource power of the water department, but also its process power. The collected data shows that the decisions on water distribution were strongly influenced by the agricultural department and the governors of the districts.
14 Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, T.; Molden, David; Chartres, Colin. 2010. Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia’s irrigation help? Paper presented at the Water Crisis and Choices, ADB and Partners Conference, ADB HQ, Manila, Philippines, 11-15 October 2010. 23p.
Irrigation systems ; Irrigation management ; Institutional reform ; Food security ; Food production / Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043241)
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Irrigation has always played a central role in the agrarian economy of Asia, from supporting famed hydraulic civilizations in the ancient past to spearheading Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s,. Asia accounts for 70% of the world’s irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. The purpose of this paper is analyze the current trends in irrigation in Asia and suggest ways and means for revitalizing irrigation for meeting our future food needs and fuelling agricultural growth. The paper recommends a five pronged approach for revitalizing Asia’s irrigation and provides region specific strategies for the same. The underlying principal of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users’ needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes.
15 Cullet, P.; Gowlland-Gualtieri, A.; Madhav, R.; Ramanathan, U. (Eds.) 2010. Water governance in motion: towards socially and environmentally sustainable water laws. New Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press. 556p.
Water governance ; Planning ; Water law ; Water rights ; Human rights ; Water policy ; Institutional reform ; Privatization ; Irrigation canals ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Tanks ; Groundwater ; Water supply ; Water scarcity ; Water resource management ; Investment ; Institutions ; Water scarcity ; Wetlands ; Case studies / India / South Africa / Australia / Argentina / Chennai / Tamil Nadu / Buenos Aires / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 CUL Record No: H043448)
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16 Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Manthrithilake, Herath; Mirzaev, N.; Wegerich, Kai; Jumaboev, Kahramon; Anarbekov, Oyture. 2010. Participatory water governance: lessons from the Ferghana Valley. In Proceedings of the Republican Scientific Practical Conference on Efficient Agricultural Water Use and Tropical Issues in Land Reclamation, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 10-11 November 2010. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources; Tashkent, Uzbekistan: International Water Management Institute; Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Scientific Information Center of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SANIIRI). pp.36-43.
Water governance ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Water user associations ; Institutional reform ; Irrigation canals / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Ferghana Valley
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043556)
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17 Wester, P. 2008. Shedding the waters: institutional change and water control in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico. Thesis. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen University. 293p.
River basin development ; River basin management ; Stakeholders ; Water control ; Irrigation management ; Institutional reform ; Decentralization ; Privatization ; Policy ; Groundwater management ; Water allocation ; Water transfer / Mexico / Lerma-Chapala Basin / Guanajuato
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 333.9162 G404 WES Record No: H043634)
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18 Ingram, H. 2011. Beyond universal remedies for good water governance: a political and contextual approaches. In Garrido, A.; Ingram, H. (Eds.). Water for food in a changing world. London, UK: Routledge. pp.241-261. (Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy)
Water governance ; Water management ; Equity ; Institutional reform ; Political aspects ; Watersheds ; Privatization
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G100 GAR Record No: H043988)
19 Molle, F.; Hoanh, Chu Thai. 2011. Implementing integrated river basin management in the Red River Basin, Vietnam: a solution looking for a problem? Water Policy, 13(4):518-534. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2011.012]
Water management ; River basin management ; Organizations ; Institutional reform ; Government departments ; Water policy ; Political aspects ; Environmental effects / Vietnam / Red River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044206)
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Several water policy principles considered to be modern and internationally sanctioned have recently been adopted by Vietnam. This article focuses on the establishment of the Red River Basin Organization but expands its analysis to the wider transformations of the water sector that impinge on the formation and effectiveness of this organization. It shows that the promotion of integrated water resource management icons such as river basin organizations (RBOs) by donors has been quite disconnected from existing institutional frameworks. If policy reforms promoted by donors and development banks have triggered changes, these changes may have come not as a result of the reforms themselves but, rather, due to the institutional confusion they have created when confronted with the emergence of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE). For the MoNRE, the river basin scale became crucial for grounding its legitimacy and asserting its role among the established layers of the administration, while for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, RBOs became a focal point where power over financial resources and political power might potentially be relocated at its expense. Institutional change is shown to result from the interaction between endogenous processes and external pressures, in ways that are hard to predict.
20 Shah, Tushaar; van Koppen, Barbara. 2005. Fitting water reforms to national context: a brief report on African Law Workshop. Draft paper presented at the 4th IWMI-Tata Annual Partners’ Meet, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India, 24-26 February 2005. 10p.
Water management ; Water governance ; Water policy ; Water law ; Water scarcity ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Water use ; Institutional reform / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044295)
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