Water rights, conflicts, and justice in South Asia

Roth, Dik; Zwarteveen, Margreet; Joy, K. J.; Kulkarni, Seema

doi:10.1080/13549839.2012.752232

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“…SAARC countries are experiencing similar, but various, water-related crises relating to water resources management. SAARC member states also have similar dynamics about the use and misuse of water, for instance, the extensive use of water in agriculture and water contamination mainly due to industrial waste dumped in waters (Roth et al, 2014). Further, the investigation is required into the water management and resource issues of SAARC countries, which appear to centre on challenges for government bodies, such challenges as increasing population, domestic and international conflict, and domestic mismanagement and decreased the quality of water.…”

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“…However, this has drastically decreased to 630m³ in recent years. A recent study found that water inequalities, inequities, and injustices in India have always existed, with huge extremes between the water-rich and the water-poor across class, caste, and gender, across regions and between cities and rural areas" (Roth et al, 2014). The availability of water across the country is severely unevenly distributed due to varying groundwater reserves, rainfall, and proximity to rivers (Basu & Shaw, 2013).…”

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Water and Communities in South Asia: A Case for Regional Cooperation

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2018

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Water and Communities in South Asia: A Case for Regional Cooperation

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Ahmed

Pawar³

2018

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“…Then, there was rainfall and I did not give them water" (fieldnotes, Jhaukhel, 15-02-2016). In other words, as Roth et al (2014) note, access to and control of water are crucially mediated by technology -such as water pumping technology in this examplebut not in a socially neutral way.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Actors often use these strategies when they are unable to establish or protect water rights by operating within the dominant "legal" basis (Pradhan and Pradhan, 2000; see also chapter 4). Moreover, water management and control are intrinsically contested processes that increasingly involve conflicts about access and rights as well as related issues of legitimacy, equity, and (in)justice (Joy et al, 2014;Roth et al, 2014). With rapidly changing land and water uses, dynamics of competing existing and new claims on water are particularly pronounced in periurban spaces.…”

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“…Water-related conflicts and cooperation, particularly in developing countries like Nepal, are deeply shaped by prevailing socio-cultural and political disparities along lines of social differentiation like gender, caste, and class that implicitly or explicitly privilege some over others in water-related decision-making (Joy et al, 2014;Udas, et al, 2014;Shrestha et al, forthcoming). Chapter 4 of this thesis shows, for example, how and why the changing divisions and solidarities pertaining to water security between different social groups in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley are particularly burdensome for marginalized groups.…”

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Urbanizing flows : growing water insecurity in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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The codified and written law applicable to the whole kingdom of Nepal Nani :Term that refers to a younger sister Pani nacalne choi chito halnu parne : Untouchable castes Pani nachalne : Those with whom higher castes were not to share water (to drink or use water offered or touched by them Pani nachalne choi chito halnu naparne : Impure but touchable castes Raikar : It denoted the crown-land or state land until 1950. Since then raikar land denotes an individual's private land. Rajkulos : Royal canals Ropani : Unit of land measurement (1 hectare=19.65 ropani) Samasya : Problems xi Sarkis : Cobblers caste groups Sim : Groundwater spring Tagadhari : Castes wearing of sacred thread Tole : A small settlement within a hamlet Varna :The basic stratification of the caste system, which divides society into four layers: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras.xii Chapter 1 The water has goneFarmers, both men and women, were busy, trying to drain water out of their paddy fields, water logged after an overnight rain. The paddy was not yet ready for harvesting and farmers were worried because the water could damage their crop and reduce the yield. During an interview, it became clear that in the past these fields had been irrigated from a stream-fed canal irrigation system. Over the years, these fields turned into rain-fed fields, making cultivation more difficult for the farmers:Farmer 1 (man): "until the monsoon begins, there is very little water in the stream" [that feeds this canal].Farmer 2 (woman): "nowadays no one needs an irrigation canal; people only need roads. All these fields are going to be covered by houses".Farmer 3 (man): "these new houses and roads often encroach on the canal. It has already been encroached on at many sections".Farmer 2 (woman): "I thought you had also come to see the land to buy it".

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Hybrid governance, environmental justice, and hydropower development in the Mekong transboundary commons

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2023

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The transboundary Mekong River spans China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and provides critical ecosystem services that support millions of people across the river basin. However, the exploitation of its water resources for state‐led development, especially in the realm of hydropower development, not only threatens the livelihoods and food security of communities across the river basin, but also reveal the challenges of governing the Mekong River as a transboundary commons. In focusing on how environmental injustice is produced through hydropower development and the power dynamics within hybrid governance arrangements in the Mekong River Basin, this paper seeks to examine how a grounded perspective of environmental justice may be understood in this context by linkages between the principles of environmental justice and the Mekong literature in three ways. First, the production of, and challenges against distributive injustice in the Mekong River Basin must engage with a strong tradition of scalar analysis in the field of transboundary water governance, particularly in understanding how a politics of scale underlies contestations around the Mekong River. Second, the principle of justice as recognition can be situated within a body of literature that interrogates the politics of knowledge that runs through Mekong water governance, although the co‐production of knowledge types must be acknowledged. Finally, a recent body of literature questioning the legality of dam‐building and public participation around Mekong hydropower dams are closely tied to issues of procedural justice, and reveal the importance of recognizing plurality in ideas around transparency and accountability.This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Human Water > Value of Water

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Water rights, conflicts, and justice in South Asia

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Water and Communities in South Asia: A Case for Regional Cooperation

Water and Communities in South Asia: A Case for Regional Cooperation

Urbanizing flows : growing water insecurity in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Hybrid governance, environmental justice, and hydropower development in the Mekong transboundary commons

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