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1 Mehta, L.. 1997. Social difference and water resource management: Insights from Kutch, India. IDS Bulletin, 28(4):79-89.
Water resource management ; Water scarcity ; Villages ; Social structure ; Households ; Land tenure ; History ; Tanks ; Wells ; Pastoralism ; Women ; Water users / India / Gujarat / Kutch district / Merka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4887 Record No: H022640)
2 Mehta, L.. 1997. Water, difference and power: Kutch and the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project. Brighton, UK: IDS. 31p. (IDS working paper 54)
Water resource management ; Environmental effects ; Social impact ; Social structure ; Villages ; Tanks ; Drought ; Wells ; Pastoralism ; Women ; Case studies / India / Gujarat / Kutch / Sardar Sarovar Project / Merka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4927 Record No: H023032)
3 Mehta, L.. 2000. Drought diagnosis: Dryland blindness of planners. Economic and Political Weekly, July 1:2439-2445.
Water resources ; Planning ; Drought ; Water scarcity ; History ; Dry farming ; Livestock ; Irrigation practices ; Legislation ; Water supply ; Villages ; Industrialization ; Water harvesting ; Groundwater / India / Gujarat / Kutch
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5667 Record No: H027764)
4 Mehta, L.. 2001. Water, difference and power: Unpacking notions of water "users" in Kutch, India. International Journal of Water, 1(3/4):324-342.
Water resource management ; Water scarcity ; Social aspects ; Villages ; Land use ; Canals ; Tanks ; Wells ; Irrigation water ; Water users / India / Gujarat / Kutch / Merka / Sardar Sarovar Project / Narmada River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H029502)
5 Mehta, L.. 2003. Contexts and constructions of water scarcity. Economic and Political Weekly, 38(48):5066-5072.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6675 Record No: H033695)
6 Mehta, L.. 2001. The manufacture of popular perceptions of scarcity: Dams and water-related narratives in Gujarat, India. World Development, 29(12):2025-2041.
Water scarcity ; Water shortage ; Dams ; Drought ; Poverty ; Environmental effects ; Irrigation programs / Asia / India / Gujarat / Kutch / Sardar Sarovar Dam / Narmada Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6688 Record No: H033737)
7 Mehta, L.. 2005. The Tsunami and globalised uncertainty. Economic and Political Weekly, 40(3):194-195.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7238 Record No: H036549)
8 Mehta, L.; la Cour Madsen, B. 2005. Is the WTO after your water? The general agreement on trade in services (GATS) and poor people’s right to water. Natural Resources Forum, 29(2):154-164.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H036972)
9 Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; Mtisi, S.; Nicol, A. 2005. A “blue revolution” for African agriculture? IDS Bulletin, 36(2):41-45.
Water resource management ; Farmer participation ; Crop production ; Water use efficiency ; Food security / Africa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7377 Record No: H037252)
10 Mehta, L.. 2005. The politics and poetics of water: The naturalization of scarcity in Western India. Himayatnagar, Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman. xx, 396p.
Water scarcity ; Villages ; Social aspects ; Political aspects ; Women ; Natural disasters ; Pastoralism ; Households ; Drought ; Drinking water ; Watersheds ; Famine / India / Merka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 MEH Record No: H038564)
11 Mehta, L.; Marshall, F.; Movik, S.; Stirling, A.; Shah, E.; Smith, A.; Thompson, J. 2007. Liquid dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation. Brighton, UK: University of Sussex, Institute of Development Studies, STEPS Centre. 51p. (STEPS Working Paper 6)
Water supply ; Sanitation ; Water governance ; Water scarcity ; Water policy ; Water rights ; Poverty ; Dams ; Cost benefit analysis
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041268)
12 Mehta, L.. (Ed.) 2010. The limits to scarcity: contesting the politics of allocation. London, UK: Earthscan. 270p.
Resource allocation ; Supply balance ; Sustainable development ; Water power ; Energy ; Policy ; Political aspects ; Welfare economics ; Agriculture ; Food production ; Water scarcity ; Soil fertility ; Hunger / USA / Africa / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.521 G000 MEH Record No: H045747)
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13 Mehta, L.; Alba, R.; Bolding, A.; Denby, K.; Derman, A.; Hove, T.; Manzungu, E.; Movik, S.; Prabhakaran, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2014. The politics of IWRM in southern Africa. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 30(3):528-542. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2014.916200]
Water resources ; Water management ; Water policy ; Water allocation ; Water users ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Gender ; Women ; Equity ; Corporate culture ; Case studies / South Africa / Zimbabwe / Mozambique
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046840)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07900627.2014.916200
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046840.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046840.pdf
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This article offers an approach to the study of the evolution, spread and uptake of integrated water resources management (IWRM). Specifically, it looks at the flow of IWRM as an idea in international and national fora, its translation and adoption into national contexts, and the on-the-ground practices of IWRM. Research carried out in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique provides empirical insights into the politics of IWRM implementation in southern Africa, the interface between international and national interests in shaping water policies in specific country contexts, and the on-theground challenges of addressing equity, redress and the reallocation of water.
14 Denby, K.; Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa. Water Alternatives, 9(3):473-492.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water governance ; Water availability ; Legal aspects ; Water law ; Land reform ; Farmers ; Decentralization ; Equity ; Catchment areas ; Rivers ; Agriculture ; Case studies / South Africa / Mpumalanga Province / Limpopo Province / Inkomati Water Management Area
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047789)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/333-a9-3-6/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047789.pdf
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The historical legacy in South Africa of apartheid and the resulting discriminatory policies and power imbalances are critical to understanding how water is managed and allocated, and how people participate in designated water governance structures. The progressive post-apartheid National Water Act (NWA) is the principal legal instrument related to water governance which has broadly embraced the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). This translation of IWRM into the South African context and, in particular, the integration of institutions related to land and water have faced many challenges due to the political nature of water and land reforms, and the tendency of governmental departments to work in silos. The paper explores the dynamics surrounding the implementation of IWRM in the Inkomati Water Management Area, and the degree of integration between the parallel land and water reform processes. It also looks at what these reforms mean to black farmers’ access to water for their sugar cane crops at the regional (basin) and local levels. The empirical material highlights the discrepancies between a progressive IWRM-influenced policy on paper and the actual realities on the ground. The paper argues that the decentralisation and integration aspects of IWRM in South Africa have somewhat failed to take off in the country and what 'integrated' actually entails is unclear. Furthermore, efforts to implement the NWA and IWRM in South Africa have been fraught with challenges in practice, because the progressive policy did not fully recognise the complex historical context, and the underlying inequalities in knowledge, power and resource access.
15 Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa. Water Alternatives, 9(3):456-472.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water law ; Legislation ; Institutions ; Decentralization / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047790)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/332-a9-3-7/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047790.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047790.pdf
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South Africa is often regarded to be at the forefront of water reform, based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ideas. This paper explores how the idea of IWRM emerged in South Africa, its key debates and interpretations and how it has been translated. It maps out the history, main events, key people, and implementation efforts through a combination of reviews of available documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with key actors. While South Africa sought to draw on experiences from abroad when drawing up its new legislation towards the end of the 1990s, the seeds of IWRM were already present since the 1970s. What emerges is a picture of multiple efforts to get IWRM to 'work' in the South African context, but these efforts failed to take sufficient account of the South African history of deep structural inequalities, the legacy of the hydraulic mission, and the slowness of water reallocation to redress past injustices. The emphasis on institutional structures being aligned with hydrological boundaries has formed a major part of how IWRM has been interpreted and conceptualised, and it has turned out to become a protracted power struggle reflecting the tensions between centralised and decentralised management.
16 van Eeden, A.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Whose waters? large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 9(3):608-626. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Agricultural development ; Large scale systems ; Water acquisitions ; Water governance ; Water users ; Water rights ; Licences ; Development policies ; Legislation ; Land acquisitions ; Investment ; State intervention ; River basins ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Private enterprises ; Sugar industry ; Biofuels ; Case studies / Tanzania / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047821)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/327-a9-3-12/file
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047821.pdf
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In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In parallel, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted in the country and globally as the governance framework that seeks to manage water resources in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This article asks how IWRM manages the competing interests as well as the diverse priorities of both large and small water users in the midst of foreign direct investment. By focusing on two commercial sugar companies operating in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania and their impacts on the water and land rights of the surrounding villages, the article asks whether institutional and capacity weaknesses around IWRM implementation can be exploited by powerful actors that seek to meet their own interests, thus allowing water grabbing to take place. The paper thus highlights the power, interests and alliances of the various actors involved in the governance of water resources. By drawing on recent conceptual insights from the water grabbing literature, the empirical findings suggest that the IWRM framework indirectly and directly facilitates the phenomenon of water grabbing to take place in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania.
17 Van Koppen , Barbara; Hellum , A.; Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Schreiner, B. 2016. Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses. In Karar, E. (Ed). Freshwater governance for the 21st century. London, UK: SpringerOpen. pp.129-143.
Freshwater ; Water governance ; Domestic water ; Water use ; Water supply ; Water allocation ; Drinking water ; Sanitation ; Human rights ; Multiple use ; Licences ; Food security ; Living standards ; Infrastructure
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047925)
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The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governance in which human rights frameworks provide a robust and widely accepted set of normative values to such governance. The basis is General Comment No. 15 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2002, which states that water is needed to realise a range of indivisible human rights to non-starvation, food, health, work and an adequate standard of living and also procedural rights to participation and information in water interventions. On that basis, the chapter explores concrete implications of the Comment for states’ broader infrastructure-based water services implied in the recognised need to access to infrastructure, rights to non-discrimination in public service delivery and respect of people’s own prioritisation. This implies a right to water for livelihoods with core minimum service levels for water to homesteads that meet both domestic and small-scale productive uses, so at least 50–100 l per capita per day. Turning to the state’s mandates and authority in allocating water resources, the chapter identifi es three forms of unfair treatment of smallscale users in current licence systems. As illustrated by the case of South Africa, the legal tool of “Priority General Authorisations” is proposed. This prioritises water allocation to small-scale water users while targeting and enforcing regulatory licences to the few high-impact users.
18 Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara; Denby, K. 2017. Emergence, interpretation and translations of IWRM in South Africa. In Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Manzungu, E. (Eds.). Flows and practices: the politics of integrated water resources management in eastern and southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.85-106.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water law ; Legislation ; Institutional reform / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G154 MEH Record No: H048282)
19 Denby, K.; Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2017. The "trickle down" of integrated water resources management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa. In Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Manzungu, E. (Eds.). Flows and practices: the politics of integrated water resources management in eastern and southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.107-131.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Water allocation ; Water law ; Local communities ; Land reform ; Farmers ; Legislation ; Catchment areas ; Agriculture ; Corporate culture ; Case studies / South Africa / Inkomati Water Management Area
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G154 MEH Record No: H048283)
20 van Eeden, A.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2017. Whose waters?: large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. In Mehta, L.; Derman, B.; Manzungu, E. (Eds.). Flows and practices: the politics of integrated water resources management in eastern and southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.277-300.
Agricultural development ; River basins ; Integrated management ; Water resources development ; Water management ; Water distribution ; Water governance ; Development policies ; Land acquisitions / Tanzania / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G154 MEH Record No: H048285)
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