Governance And Institutions

Independent regulatory agencies: A theoretical review with reference to electricity and water in India

Independent regulatory agencies have become an important part of the governance landscape in India and elsewhere. Some regulators have achieved useful outcomes. However, the creation of independent sectoral regulators in India has not been accompanied by critical reflection on their role, or attention to the political, legal, and institutional contexts within which they operate. This study explores various theoretical perspectives on the political economy of regulation, and elaborates on the implications these have for electricity and water regulation in India.

Publication Date: 
04/10/2008
Navroz K Dubash
Economic and Political Weekly
43
40
43-54
Tags:
Water Supply, Electricity, India, Governance, Water Management, Public Sector, Private Sector, Legislation, Water Policy, Energy Policy
Water Resources

Draft state water policy 2008: Government of Punjab

The State Water Policy envisions that available water resources should be utilized efficiently and judiciously to meet drinking water needs and irrigation requirements in a manner that also promotes its conservation and engenders community participation. It seeks to make water everybody

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Government of Punjab
Tags:
Water Resources, Surface Water, Groundwater, Water Policy, Water Conservation, Drinking Water, Irrigation, Water Supply, India, Punjab
Water Resources

Water: an increasingly precious resource sanitation -a matter of dignity

As well as providing crucial support in Africa, the new policy will help 30 million people in South Asia to gain access to sanitation. Half the population of the developing world still lives without basic sanitation, while almost 900 million people go without safe and reliable water supplies.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
DFID
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Drinking Water, Water Supply, Sanitation, Economic Development, Governance, Developing Countries
Water Resources

Safe water as the key to global health

Access to safe and affordable water is considered to be a basic human right, yet the universal reality does not reflect this principle. A lack of adequate capacity and financing, and national policies which often rely on unsustainable use of water resources, prevent effective and sustainable provision of safe water and sanitation.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
& et al, Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Velma I. Grover, Zafar Adeel
The United Nations University
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Drinking Water, Waterborne diseases, Climate Change, Health, Sanitation, Poverty, Global, Globalisation

 Ask no questions, just pay the water bill

Consumers have no say in the bad plans made in their name mangalore is witnessing fights over water pricing. But beyond politicizing the issue, the protestors themselves are clueless about how the water in their city was priced. The Mangalore Municipal Corporation (mcc) says poor cost recovery is preventing it from delivering the best of services. But facts speak otherwise. An analysis of

Publication Date: 
29/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Water Policy, Urban Water Supply, Water Supply, Water Pricing, Asian Development Bank (ADB), India, Mangalore, Debt
Water Supply

Water activists oppose commodification

CHENNAI: Water activists from diverse countries such as Japan, the Philippines, Palestine, Turkey and Mexico have expressed themselves against the commodification of water.

Publication Date: 
25/09/2008
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Water Policy, Water Privatisation
Water Resources

 Digging shallow

Rs 1,800 crore groundwater programme a non-starter A Rs 1,800 crore national programme for artificial recharge of groundwater through dug-wells was announced by finance minister P Chidambaram, in February 2007. It was to provide proper irrigation facilities to millions of farmers. But thanks to the delays on part of the state governments, the scheme is yet to take off. With about

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
SHIKHA AGGARWAL
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Groundwater, Groundwater Recharge, Water Policy, Irrigation, Farmers, Finance, Subsidies, Ministry Of Water Resources, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), India, Statistics
Water Resources

Raise Kosi Treaty with India

Prerana Marasini

KATHMANDU: At a time when Kathmandu and New Delhi are blaming each other for the devastating Kosi floods, Nepal

Publication Date: 
09/09/2008
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rivers, Kosi, Water Policy, Floods, Nepal, India
Water Resources

Water policy networks in Egypt and Ethiopia

This article presents data illustrating the networked structure of the water sector in two Nile Basin states, Egypt and Ethiopia. Social network analysis is applied to quantify network

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Samuel Luzi, Mohamed Abdelmoghny Hamouda, Franziska Sigrist & et al
Journal of Environment & Development
17
3
238
Tags:
Water Management, Water Policy, Aid Agencies, Egypt, Ethiopia, Statistics
Water Resources

The United States and International Water Policy

This article examines the role of the United States in international institutions and practices for governing water. Water is a critical global challenge of environmental protection and human security. Water is also characteristic of a set of

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Ken Conca
Journal of Environment & Development
17
3
215
Tags:
Water Management, Water Policy, Dams, Aid Agencies, Governance, World Bank, NGO, United States Of America (US), Statistics, River Basin

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