TY - BOOK AU - Iyer, R. R. TI - Towards water wisdom: limits, justice, harmony U1 - 333.339 PY - 2007/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE Publications N1 - PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS Water crisis : the mainstream view -- The water scene in India -- Water governance -- The question of politicisation -- Re-examining past thinking -- The question of demand -- Crisis or crises? -- Crisis of understanding -- Apotheosis of fallacy : ILR project -- Supply-side conundrum -- PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS: RIVER-WATER DISPUTES Indus treaty : a re-examination -- Differences over Baglihar -- The Cauvery dispute : continuing impasse -- The Punjab imbroglio -- River-water disputes : some reflections -- PART THREE: CONFLICTS OF OTHER KINDS Narmada: abandoning the displaced -- Profit versus life -- Privatization, markets -- PART FOUR: MAKING SENSE OF LAWS AND POLICIES Legal inadequacies and perplexities -- Policies : muddled or worse? -- Transforming the laws : a constitutional declaration on water? -- Transforming the laws : a national water law? -- PART FIVE: TAKING NOTE OF OTHERS' THINKING Issues and concerns in the neighbourhood -- Some international formulations : a critique -- A parenthesis on a different view -- PART SIX: DRAWING THE THREADS TOGETHER Some glimmers of hope -- Towards wisdom on water -- The larger framework : new thinking for a changing world ER -