Water and the laws in India /

Water and the laws in India / edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer. - New Delhi ; Washington DC : SAGE Publications, 2009. - xiv, 670 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legal aspects of water resource management / A. Vaidyanathan and Bharath Jairaj -- Water in India : constitutional perspectives / Kamala Sankaran -- Inter-state water disputes: a nightmare! / Fali S. Nariman -- Nation vs peoples : inter-state water disputes in India's Supreme Court / Radha D'Souza -- Riparianism in Indian water jurisprudence / Tony George Puthucherril -- The ownership of water in Indian laws / Videh Upadhyay -- The human right to water : policies and rights / Upendra Baxi -- Community engagement in water governance / M.S. Vani -- Water use : legal and institutional framework / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape -- Drinking water supply: right and obligation / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan -- Water, women and rights / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Floods and some legal concerns / Dinesh Kumar Mishra -- Water pollution and contamination / Paritosh C. Tyagi -- Environmental decision-making in India: a critique / Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli -- The contours of EIA in india / Shyam Divan -- Displacement in the name of development / Himanshu Thakkar -- Groundwater law in India : a new approach / M.S. Vani -- Indian laws and acts on traditional tank irrigation systems / DHAN Foundation -- Water law reforms in India : trends and prospects / Philippe Cullet and Roopa Madhav -- Water law for India : science and philosophy perspectives / T.N. Narasimhan -- A synoptic survey and thoughts on change / Ramaswamy R. Iyer.

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