Water first: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia/ edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J. Wasson

Foreword - Peter P MollingaIntroduction: Placing Water First - Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt I. THE REGIONAL POLITICS OF WATER IN SOUTH ASIA National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene - Ramaswamy R. IyerThe Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers - Avijit GuptaThe Politics of Water in Colonial India: The Emergence of Control - David HardimanThe Regional Politics of Water Sharing: Contemporary Issues in South Asia - Douglas HillGlobal Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers: Implications for South Asia - Binayak RayRiver-Linking and its Discontents: The Final Plunge for Supply-side Hydrology in India - Rohan D'SouzaII. REGIONAL ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND APPROACHESWater Quality and Economic Growth in India - Robert J. WassonWhen a Public Health Story Goes Sour: Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water in Bangladesh - Bruce CaldwellArsenic Contamination of Ground Water: Social Determinants of an Environmental Crisis in India - Atanu SarkarGender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia: The Challenge of Community-managed Alternatives - Sara AhmedInstitutions for Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons from Four Indian States - Vishal Narain and Saurabh Chugh Top-down or Bottom-up?: Negotiating Water Management at the Local Level in South Asia - Saravanan V.SWatershed Development Programmes and Rural Development: A Review of Indian Policies - Sucharita SenIII. INTERPRETING COMMUNITY ROLES AND INITIATIVESBeyond 'Dispositif' and 'De-politicization': Spaces of Civil Society in Water Conservation in Rural Rajasthan - Saurabh Gupta and Subir Sinha Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism: The Movement Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam - Judy Whitehead Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC - Kuntala Lahiri-DuttEndogenous Water Resource Management in North-East Bangladesh: Lessons from the Haor Basin - Jennifer Duyne Barenstein The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation) - Annie BolithoIndex