Water and the laws in India /
Laws relating to water in India have diverse origins, including ancient local customs and the British Common Law. The in-depth chapters in this compendium, written by luminaries from various fields, pertain to issues on water and proceed to a discussion of the legal questions that arise. This volume...
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2009.
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2009. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
